Stef van Dongen is an innovator and impact-driven entrepreneur. His lifework is focused on how humans can live and work in harmony with nature and each other. Stef has over 18 years of experience in the impact sector. In 2018 he founded Pioneers of Our Time, a social enterprise that works for and with organisations and individuals to design impact strategies, build strategic partnerships, investment and philanthropic vehicles. Projects include: e.g. large-scale landscape and forest regeneration and impact investing agendas for cities.
In 2002 he founded the social enterprise group Enviu from the belief that entrepreneurs can play a major role in solving the world’s biggest challenges. Over the years Stef co-founded more than a dozen cutting edge social enterprises and innovation programs in the field of access to financial services, access to food and circular economy.
Stef is a consultant on PSJP’s project on ‘Markets for the common good’.