Ada Andreoni is Project Manager at the Ashoka Europe Fellowship Program where she supports the coordination of the Systems Change and Wellbeing modules. She is also Partnerships Manager at Ashoka Spain. Ada has a multicultural academic background in Social Sciences and a master’s degree in Local Development at the University of Padua. She is passionate about bottom-up approaches and the power of collective action and innovative ideas. Since she joined Ashoka in 2019, she has been dedicated to deepening her knowledge and expertise on systems change to support social entrepreneurs to scale their impact and achieve systemic change in their field.

Alex de la Torre is responsible of the Changemaker Finance activities at Ashoka and the ASN Angel Network manager. Alex leverages his financial experience as Economic Consultant and as Finance Director at Ashoka Spain. He has delivered several social finance workshops and has been part of various Social Investment Accelerators.

Florian Rutsch co-created and co-leads the Ashoka Europe Fellowship Program including its co-learning modules on System Change, Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration, and Government Alliances as well as its ecosystem initiatives on funding and supporting system changers.

He co-published the report 'Embracing Complexity: Towards a shared understanding of funding systems change' at the World Economic Forum in collaboration with several global sector partners. It is based on, among others, his previous report 'Seven Steps for Funding System Change'. He is also a co-creator of Catalyst 2030 and the Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs, as well as a thought partner in the Ashoka Globalizer Program, Ashoka's flagship accelerator for system change strategies.

Previously, he co-founded a youth campaign reaching 25k people in 35 countries and worked as a social impact consultant on strategy, impact measurement, and stakeholder engagement. He studied business, economics, and social entrepreneurship in the Netherlands, Hong Kong, United States, United Kingdom, and Kenya.