Irene Bengo

Irene Bengo, Ph.D. in Management Engineering, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. She is the scientific coordinator of TIRESIA, a research group of the Department of Management and Engineering, and she teaches the course “Sustainable and Social Innovation Lab” and “Economics and Business Organization (EOA)”.

Her research focuses on social and innovative approaches, practices, and management tools for hybrid organizations, impact finance, and public-private partnerships. She is an expert in impact measurement and management. Professor Bengo is the coordinator of many national and international projects in collaboration with universities, public and private institutions, and she is a member of the scientific committee of “Social Value Network”.

In 2015 she was a consultant on gender integration process assessment systems (Ministry of Labor). In 2014 she was a member of the ” Social Impact Investment Task Force” established by the G8. In 2012 and 2018 she was National Consultant of UNIDO on social business and performance measurement systems.

She was awarded “heroine of human rights” 2012 by the Association for Human Rights and Tolerance for her activities in water management and the creation of local social businesses in Congo and Colombia. She was the founder of Engineering Without Borders Milan in 2004, and since 2009 she has been the voluntary president of the association.