Meet Our Advisory Committee
Femida Handy, PhD
Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice
Academic Advisor, Masters in Nonprofit/NGO Leadership Program
Having published various award-winning articles regarding the nonprofit sector, Dr. Handy is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. Dr. Handy's area of expertise is nonprofit sector economics. She has significant experience in the micro foundational issues of the nonprofit sector as well as NGOs, and volunteerism. Her research interests include nonprofit entrepreneurship and volunteerism, comparative and international aspects of the nonprofit and voluntary sector, and social accounting. Furthermore, her teaching interests include various topics related to the nonprofit sector, the economics of human behavior and organizational life, social welfare and the environment. Dr. Handy also serves as the Academic Advisor for the Nonprofit/NGO Leadership Masters program.
Vikas Choudhary, PhD
Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania
Director, International Economic Development
Vikas Choudhary is the Director of International Economic Development at the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a practitioner and researcher of global economic development initiatives for over 10 years. His management and consulting experience includes serving as the project lead for a $6.2 million USAID Project (GMED) to link poor farmers to commercial value chains in India, coordinating a FICCI-CARE livelihood restoration project to rehabilitate earthquake affected communities in 30 villages in Gujarat, co-founding a handicraft export business, and serving as the project manager for a leading Government of Rajasthan’s agency for promotion of economic development in the rural non-farm sector.
Most recently, he has been working with the IFC (International Finance Corporation) and teaching microfinance and development coursework at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. He is a qualitative researcher and received his PhD (Development Anthropology) and MPA from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and a PGDFM (~MBA) from the Indian Institute of Forest Management. He has worked extensively with non profit organizations, especially on the issues of collaboration between NPOs and private organizations.
Philip Nichols, JD
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Legal Studies and Business Ethics
Phil Nichols is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the institutions of international trade - primarily the World Trade Organization - and on the institutional changes occurring in emerging economies. Professor Nichols has also conducted substantial research on corruption. He also teaches courses on emerging economies and on international business transactions.
Outside of the University, Professor Nichols holds the co-chair position of the Law Group of UN/CEFACT, and serves as co-chair of the International Economic Law Group of the American Society of International Law.
Andrew Lamas
Associate Professor, Urban Studies Program, Wharton School
Andrew Lamas began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. His primary appointment is in the School of Arts & Sciences’ Urban Studies Program, where he focuses on the theoretical and practical dimensions, as well as the philosophical and religious bases, of social justice and economic democracy—in the context of urbanization. He also lectures in other schools and programs at Penn, including the School of Social Policy & Practice, where he teaches courses for students pursuing degrees and careers in social work, community development, and related fields. He also participates in the Global Gender Group sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program.
He was a founding board member of the Center for Community Self-Help (which, since 1980, has provided nearly $4 billion in financing to more than 40,000 small businesses, nonprofits, and homebuyers in North Carolina, with a particular focus on low-wealth minorities and women) and the Reinvestment Fund (which provides financing—with more than $250 million of capital under management—for affordable housing and community development in the Greater Philadelphia region).
Leonard Lodish
Professor of Marketing
Vice Dean, Program for Social Impact
Leader and Co-founder, Global Consulting Practicum
Leonard M. Lodish is the Samuel R. Harrell Professor in the Marketing Department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he has been since 1968. He received a Ph.D. (Marketing and Operations Research) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management in 1968 and an A.B. (Mathematics) from Kenyon College in 1965. He has been at Wharton since 1968 where he was department chair from 1984-1988 and 1991-1992. He has also been a visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School. He is also Vice Dean for Wharton West, Wharton's San Francisco campus since 2001.
At Wharton, Professor Lodish co-founded, in (1979), and is Leader of the Wharton Global Consulting Practicum that has subsidiary partnerships in Israel (Tel Aviv University), Chile (Universidad Adolfo Ibanez), Peru (Universidad del Pacifico) , Colombia (Universidad de Los Andes), China (Fudan and Beida Universities), and India (Indian School of Business). Through the program, groups of MBA's at Wharton work with client companies and MBA students at the partner institution on real projects to either help the foreign client company succeed at marketing in the U.S., or help a U.S. firm succeed in the partner's country. In 1995, he initiated, developed, and currently teaches Wharton's Entrepreneurial Marketing MBA Course and wrote Entrepreneurial Marketing: Lessons from Wharton's Pioneering MBA Course, with Howard L. Morgan, and Amy Kallianpur, published in 2001 by John Wiley.
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