Reinhard Millner

Biography

Reinhard Millner is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at WU Vienna, as well as the Co-founder and Head of the university’s Social Entrepreneurship Center. He has a background in Business Administration and Economics from WU Vienna, the University of St. Gallen and the London School of Economics.

Since 2013 Dr. Millner has served as Academic Director for the ERSTE Foundation NGO Academy, offering a range of capacity building programmes to NGOs and social enterprises in 13 countries across Central and Southeast Europe, and to which he contributes in the areas of programme development, curriculum design and programme implementation. He is also the Programme Director of the NEXT Award Programme, an acceleration programme for Austrian social enterprises. Reinhard has previously held the positions of, among others, visiting scholar at the Stockholm School of Economics and visiting lecturer at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, as well as at the Centre for Philanthropy Studies of the University of Basel. He regularly teaches courses for the WU undergraduate and MBA programmes.

Reinhard Millner has previously served as a member of the European Commission’s GECES subgroup of experts on social impact measurement, which focused on developing a methodology to measure the socio-economic benefits created by social enterprises. He also serves on the advisory boards of several non-profit organisations and is a jury member and project evaluator for several award schemes, such as the TRIGOS Award, the Social Impact Award and TUN Award, among others, and has assessed over 1200 projects thus far.

His research interests are philanthropy and foundations, impact investing, social entrepreneurship and social impact assessment, as well as nonprofit management.