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About Me

Olivier Maurel is 30, living in Paris (France) and actively curious about creativity, smart mob, cross-fertilisation, Game Theory, new media, web environment, open money, sociocracy and collective intelligence.

Olivier is graduated from ESCP Europe in finance. As a consultant, he worked on innovation and activity launch for consumer goods and media leaders. Following several assignments in film making, television and mobile industry, he was in charge of business development for vpod.tv, a web agency specializing in on-line video platforms. In 2008, he joined danone.communities: he is responsible for social innovation and community management for this social business incubator within the Danone Group. He participated to the World Social Forum four times and is topic editor of TEDx Paris.

danone.communities is an incubator of social businesses, whose mission is to fund and develop social enterprises, built on innovative models, able to answer questions from malnutrition and poverty, at a large scale. This fund is supported by the Danone Group and Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, and is backed by a fund managed by Crédit Agricole teams. This financial tool allows anyone wishing to give sense to their savings and invest in companies that create economic and social value, locally.

His LinkedIn Profile : http://www.linkedin.com/in/oliviermaurel

He is deeply interested in Social Innovation and Social Business issues. He participated 4 times to the World Social Forum : in Nairobi, Kenya (2007), from Paris, France (in 2008 & 2010 ; through a WineCamp and a debate about alternative currencies), in Belem, Brazil (2009). He was part of Burning Man 2010. He is Program Architect of TEDxParis, a derivative organization from TED to design and host local and independent events.

In october 2010, he launched officially the project Lemnarama : a social game, based on a social currency - Lemnas- to stimulate kindness, and structured as a social business.

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