Vote for the Socially responsible organization of the year 2015

Established in 2011, this award recognizes an EDHEC graduate for an outstanding career and his/her social and/or economic impact within an organization/NGO or social enterprise. He/she may be an entrepreneur in the field of social economy. This association/NGO or company has citizenship and social and environmental responsibility at the heart of its business values. Open to the world, it advocates active solidarity.

Within this entity, this EDHEC :
- Plays a prominent role and has contributed greatly to the development of this association/NGO or social enterprise
- Can be successfully materialized and a major project, impacting socially and/or economically.

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Sébastien Duquet, EDHEC Master 1996, Managing Director of ResponsAbility France

Sébastien Duquet (1996 EDHEC graduate) cut his teeth while working at Andersen / Ernst & Young, in the audit and transaction advisory services (TAS), particularly in the banking business, and concluded his financial education by obtaining a diploma in accounting and financial studies (DESCF).
   
Ever since his graduation, Sébastien has been passionate about responsible financing. He then discovered microfinance while carrying out a project of restructuration of the banking sector in Madagascar, and decided to get in contact with the market's forerunners, starting a volunteering collaboration with PlaNet Finance, founded in 1999 by Jacques Attali.

In 2002, Sébastien, then head of E&Y, decided to move with his family to Morocco and launch PlaNet Finance Maroc, which supports the local development of microfinance. As a result of PlaNet Finance Maroc's success, the project was taken to many other countries such as Egypt, Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon to which Sébastien devoted his full-time in 2004. In November of 2005, he was appointed managing director of PlaNet Finance and moved back to France.

During the following 4 years, he developed the activities of the NGO, especially in Africa (Senegal, Mali, Madagascar, South Africa), where microcredit had not been developed yet. He then founded PlaNet Guarantee (aiming to develop microfinance) and FinanCités (a microcapital solidarity risk company, investing in microcompanies in sensitive urban areas in France). In September 2009, he decided to focus exclusively on PlaNet's Finance activity of fund management in microfinance and Fair trade, launching the company PlaNis which joined ResponsAbility in February 2011.

ResponsAbility is an asset manager, global leader in impact investment in developing countries and the first investor in microfinance and Fairtrade in the world. ResponsAbility manages 2.6 billion USD of funds invested in 535 companies based in more than 93 countries in the world, mainly in microfinance, fair trade, renewable energies and independent media. ResponsAbility's investment concept is to aim at sectors and companies offering services that enable the economic and social development of unprivileged populations in developing countries.

Sébastien takes part in numerous conferences and teaches EDHEC students on the subjects of microfinance and fair trade.

> To go further: www.responsability.com
http://www.efficycle.fr/sebastien-duquet-directeur-responsability/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJm1Qd8Wii8
http://positiveeconomy.co/fr/video/services-financiers-accessibles/
http://positiveeconomy.co/fr/speaker/duquet-sebastien/
http://positiveeconomy.co/fr/video/sebastien-duquet-san-patrignano-2014/


Julie Houriez, EDHEC Master 2001, Head of Production & Development in Signes de Sens

Julie Houriez is a 2001 EDHEC Master graduate who established her career through professional experiences such as “Artère” (an artistic installation by F.Hyber in Parc de la Villette for the fight against aids) and the development of new target audiences for the Louvre museum.

In 2009 she joined in in her brother's association Signes de Sens to take the lead of the production and development department. Signe de Sens is an association based in Lille that aims to develop a positive and enthusiastic image of handicap, through the production of services that are designed to reach out to all. Signe de Sens sees handicap has an opportunity for innovation and diversity in fields such as education, culture and social matters.

Their work is highly motivated by the needs of family and professional networks which show a clearer vision of the market's demands, therefore allowing the emergence of new prototypes and ideas. They act to develop an original working method of social R&D, which they promote through a customized portfolio of products and services.

Through their actions and experience, Signes de Sens show that difference frames society through the combination of research, accessibility and social innovation.

> Read more on www.signesdesens.org


Delphine Hoffmann, EDHEC Master 1997, Head of Partnerships development in Association Laurette Fugain

Following her graduation from EDHEC Business School, in 1997, Delphine Hoffman started off with a marketing career at Henkel. In 2003 she decided to give a new meaning to her career by taking part in a philanthropic cause, and joined the association Laurette Fugain, which had been recently created.

Head of Partnership Development in Laurette Fugain Association, Delphine brings her professional expertise and enthusiastic communication. For 12 years now, she has been thoroughly involved with this ever changing organization which has become a reference in the fight against Leukemia. Delphine is passionate about developing the philanthropic engagement of business companies through many different types of interventions (promoting public awareness of life donations, fundraising, sports challenges …) while raising a growing number of partners.

> To go further:
http://www.laurettefugain.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz9X3RZPRq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPSjTS-naJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuxLAdRVpiA&feature=youtu.be