Alnoor Ebrahim
(617) 627-5104
160 Packard Avenue, Room 406
Research/Areas of Interest
Social impact measurement
Accountability of corporations, nonprofits, and social enterprises
Governance of corporations and international NGOs
Corporate governance of artificial intelligence firms
Leadership & strategy for social change
Managing NGOs and social enterprises
Education
- PhD, Environmental Planning & Management, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
- MS, Civil/Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
- BSc, Civil/Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Biography
Alnoor Ebrahim is the Thomas Schmidheiny Professor of International Business at The Fletcher School, and the Tisch College of Civic Life, at Tufts University. His research addresses several core dilemmas of social impact and accountability facing businesses, nonprofit organizations, and public agencies. Additionally, he studies board-level governance of artificial intelligence (AI) firms and how firms balance profit with purpose. He teaches courses on leadership and strategy, and in executive education programs at The Fletcher School and Harvard University.
A scholar of social change, Ebrahim applies his academic research to real-world contexts. He is a research affiliate of the Institute for Business in the Global Context and the Center for International Law & Governance. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the California Management Review, and the Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society, as well as the advisory board of the World Bank's Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA).
He co-chairs three Fletcher Executive Education programs: the Envision Leadership program with the Asian Development Bank, in which he worked with 140 senior leaders in the ADB on internal change management; the Global Diplomacy Institute, a strategic retreat for mid-to-senior career diplomats to build their skills of engagement with business and civil society in a rapidly changing world order; and GE Vernova, a next generation leadership accelerator for GE's high potential young leaders.
Ebrahim previously served on an advisory board to IRIS+ at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), and a working group established by the G7 to create global guidelines on social impact measurement; on Acumen's Lean Data advisory council; and on the board of Imago Global Grassroots. He has worked with the NGO Leaders Forum, an annual gathering of CEOs of large humanitarian development organizations. His research on accountability mechanisms within the World Bank led to a Congressional testimony on improving the bank's information disclosure policy.
He is the author of the book, "Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World" (Stanford University Press, 2019), which has received awards from the Financial Times and Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium, as well as The Alliance for Nonprofit Management. He is also author of the award-winning "NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning" (Cambridge University Press) and is co-editor of "Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics" (Cambridge University Press).
A scholar of social change, Ebrahim applies his academic research to real-world contexts. He is a research affiliate of the Institute for Business in the Global Context and the Center for International Law & Governance. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the California Management Review, and the Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society, as well as the advisory board of the World Bank's Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA).
He co-chairs three Fletcher Executive Education programs: the Envision Leadership program with the Asian Development Bank, in which he worked with 140 senior leaders in the ADB on internal change management; the Global Diplomacy Institute, a strategic retreat for mid-to-senior career diplomats to build their skills of engagement with business and civil society in a rapidly changing world order; and GE Vernova, a next generation leadership accelerator for GE's high potential young leaders.
Ebrahim previously served on an advisory board to IRIS+ at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), and a working group established by the G7 to create global guidelines on social impact measurement; on Acumen's Lean Data advisory council; and on the board of Imago Global Grassroots. He has worked with the NGO Leaders Forum, an annual gathering of CEOs of large humanitarian development organizations. His research on accountability mechanisms within the World Bank led to a Congressional testimony on improving the bank's information disclosure policy.
He is the author of the book, "Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World" (Stanford University Press, 2019), which has received awards from the Financial Times and Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium, as well as The Alliance for Nonprofit Management. He is also author of the award-winning "NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning" (Cambridge University Press) and is co-editor of "Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics" (Cambridge University Press).