EDHEC Socially Responsible Entrepreneur of the Year: cast your votes!

EDHEC Socially Responsible Entrepreneur of the Year award

Created in 2011, this award is given in recognition of an EDHEC graduate’s exceptional career path and social and/or economic impact as part of an association/NGO or socially responsible organisation. The winner can be an entrepreneur from the social and solidarity economy. The winning association/NGO or organisation places values of citizenship and social and environmental responsibility at the heart of its activities. It is open to the world and advocates acts of solidarity.

Within the organisation, the winning graduate:

- plays a crucial role and makes a strong contribution to its development;

- may have successfully led a major project with a social and/or economic impact.

How to vote:

Only EDHEC Alumni members can vote for candidates.
You have until midnight on 5 June to vote. The result will determine the 3 finalists for the award.

The selection committee will then choose the 2018 winner from those finalists. The jury is as follows:Director of EDHEC Alumni, Martin Barbier

- Director of the EYE incubator, Jean-Michel Ledru
- Business Angels Club ambassador, Anne-Sophie de Gabriac
- -Club Entreprendre ambassador, Jean Houzé de l’Aulnoit
- EDHEC Alumni administrator, Frédérique Cartalas
- Winner of the 2017 EDHEC Socially Responsible Entrepreneur of the Year award, Augustin Jaclin
- Winner of the 2017 EDHEC Entrepreneur of the Year award, Aurélien Leprêtre

Candidates for 2018:

The EDHEC Socially Responsible Entrepreneur of the Year award will be presented during the EDHEC Rendez-Vous in Paris on 14 June 2018 (more info about the event here). Bringing together some 1,500 graduates from across the world, the EDHEC Rendez-Vous is the most important event in the year for EDHEC graduates.

Three awards will be presented at the event: the EDHEC Socially Responsible Entrepreneur of the Year, the EDHEC Start-up Founder of the Year and the EDHEC Entrepreneur of the Year.