Alejandro is part of the Rework the World team, and also Head of the Pathways to Scale programme at Volans Ventures in London, UK where he creates partnerships for scaling up the impact of social and environmental innovations and entrepreneurs.
From 2004-2008, Alejandro was a senior advisor to the Collaborative Governance programme atAccountAbility in London, where he worked on the political economy of governance innovations. He has developed strategy services for clients such as the World Bank Group, the Shell Foundation, theGlobal Water Partnership, the Club of Madridand the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; and has led multi-stakeholder activities on collaborative innovation in countries such as Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines and South Africa.
He has authored and co-authored publications, research reports and featured media articles on the economics and politics of cross-sector cooperation in areas such as energy poverty, security and climate change. He has designed and led initiatives to create economic incentives to address challenges such as energy poverty through enterprise models and the collapse of fisheries.
Before moving to London in 2003, Alejandro worked throughout Latin America as a manager for the philanthropic, Swiss-based AVINA Foundation. From 2000-2003 he was responsible for managing a portfolio of social investments based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina, including, in 2001, the local development of the hemispheric Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN). In this role, he championed and implemented creative collaborations between social entrepreneurs, business leaders, and private foundations.
In 2004 he obtained an MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics (LSE), where he was awarded the Hobhouse Memorial Prize for achieving the highest performance that year. During his studies, he worked with Shell Internationals Future Scenarios team in London. He holds a BA in International Relations from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was awarded the gold medal for highest performance and his research of the role of economic and political incentives in the collapse of Argentine fisheries in 1999.