Annalisa Contini

Director Social Economy Unit | COSV |

Annalisa Contini is a Senior Social Entrepreneurship Expert with over a decade of experience in community development, public-private partnerships, social inclusion and the internationalisation of social enterprises. She has been involved in both the Italian and international development cooperation. Since 2016, her focus has been on transforming international development approaches through social entrepreneurship, fostering sustainable growth, social justice and market innovation. She has pioneered incubation programmes in emerging social enterprise ecosystems across the Balkans, Lebanon, Syria and Mozambique. As the founding member and director of COSV’s social economy unit and board member of Co-Profit Benefit Company srl, she is an expert in human-centered design and action research.