Genevieve Edens
Bio
Genevieve is the Director of Research & Impact at the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. There, she manages the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative, a research partnership to answer the questions like: do accelerators work? Do they work outside of Silicon Valley and the tech sector? And how do they work best? At ANDE, Genevieve also heads up data collection on the small and growing business sector to track donor funding, investment, and nonfinancial support available to early stage ventures in emerging markets.
Before ANDE, Genevieve worked in the specialty coffee industry and at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Genevieve has an MBA from the George Washington University, and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.