Charlotte Hochman has spent the last 12 years building capacity for social innovation in civil society, the private and the public sectors. Her expertise is in developing tools and projects to catalyse people's capacity to innovate and create start-ups in response to global challenges.
She has collaborated across sectors to build enabling environments for innovation and entrepreneurship, namely with the public sector (US State Department, City of Paris, Région Ile-de-France), corporate companies (Generali, Danone, GDF-Suez, Arthur Andersen), foundations or non-profits and universities (INSEAD, HEC, Ecole Normale Supérieure).
Wow!Labs' initiatives under her leadership include carrying out an ambitious project with the Obama administration and Babson College aimed at designing and starting up innovation hotspots in Malaysia, and founding PLACE. PLACE is a European collective spurring innovation labs in different cities for newcomers to Europe, and provides thought leadership on the subjects of migrant-led innovation and new-generation private-public partnerships. Charlotte also created the Beehive ("La Ruche") in 2007, a social business incubator in central Paris which has served thousands of people since its creation and has since scaled up to other locations.
he graduated with a First from Oxford University (Philosophy), where she wrote a thesis on Spinoza, and gained a Masters with Distinction from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (Law and Development), where she wrote a thesis on the role of empowerment in legal and development processes.
Charlotte Hochman is a member of several juries, including the City of Paris Innovation Awards, Ashoka on Social Entrepreneurship, and the U.S. Embassy in France Awards on Diversity. She is a 2017-2017 Fulbright grantee, to carry out applied research on the intersection between interculturality and innovation processes in Silicon Valley, with a special focus on service-design.
She was a panelist at Barack Obama’s Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in 2010 in Washington, and is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD since 2011.
