Bernadette Clavier

Ms. Bernadette Clavier is the director of the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). The center educates insightful leaders for social and environmental change. Prior to this, she was in charge of the center’s social innovation programs and before that its communications, digital strategy, and conferences. Ms. Clavier came to the United States from France, where she worked as vice president of seasonal products for E. Leclerc, the French retail chain equivalent of Wal-Mart. She was a Founding Board Member of Spring Impact, and a Partner at Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund. She sits on the board of ICSF, a nonprofit consulting organization that supports the scaling of social ventures. She holds an MBA from HEC Paris, speaks French and English, and in her spare time she advises social entrepreneurs, advocates for autism spectrum disorders awareness, and works as part of the Climate Reality Project team.