Sandra Navalli

Sandra Navalli, OAM, is an adjunct faculty and Executive Director of the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change at Columbia Business School, which educates leaders to use business knowledge, entrepreneurial skills, and management tools to address social and environmental challenges. The Institute offers courses, experiential learning programs, research, and community-focused initiatives, including the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures which provides seed grants for social and environmental ventures. Newer initiatives focus on Inclusive Entrepreneurship, Capital for Good (which covers the full capital spectrum from ESG and impact investing to venture philanthropy); Business and Climate Change; and the Re-Entry Acceleration Program (where MBA students teach personal finance, entrepreneurship, and interpersonal skills in prisons). She has over a decade of experience in the impact field, and previously worked in business and product development for an education technology social venture, management consulting, microeconomic policy, and in corporate law. In 2020 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to international education. She received an MBA from Columbia Business School and honors degrees in Economics and in Law (B.Ec./LL.B.) from the Australian National University.