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Biography

Andrew Hanna听is an award-winning entrepreneur, lawyer, author, and professor. A first-generation Egyptian-American born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, Professor Hanna is the founder of Mona 鈥撎齛 global social venture backed by Stanford鈥檚 Center for Social Innovation and Alpine Social Ventures that provides undersupported small-business entrepreneurs with access to capital, distribution opportunities, product investment, and design support. He is also the co-founder of DreamxAmerica, which joins storytelling and impact to highlight and support immigrant, refugee, and first-generation entrepreneurs.听Recognized on Fast Company鈥檚 World Changing Ideas List, DreamxAmerica's documentary short film on PBS was nominated for a Chicago Emmy庐 Award.听

Professor Hanna is the author of听25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs听(Cambridge University Press), which tells the stories of three Syrian women entrepreneurs in the Za鈥檃tari camp, and of refugee entrepreneurs around the world. The book was named a听Financial Times听Best Book of the Year and won the prestigious Bracken Bower Prize in its proposal form. It has been called 鈥渁 powerful story of hope鈥� by Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee; a chance to 鈥渄iscover humanity at its best鈥� by PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff, 鈥渋nspir[ing]鈥�; 鈥渟harply topical鈥� and 鈥渙riginal鈥� by the听Financial Times; and 鈥渦plifting鈥� by听Publishers Weekly.听 Professor Hanna has also written on the constitutionality of solitary confinement, serious mental illness in prisons, and the constitutionality of failing to provide court-appointed counsel for asylum-seeking children facing deportation.

Professor Hanna previously led the launch of Generation 鈥� the global youth employment non-profit founded by McKinsey 鈥� in his hometown of Jacksonville, advised senior officials at the White House and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs鈥� suicide prevention task force as a senior associate at McKinsey, served in the U.S. Department of Justice and the Vice President鈥檚 Office at the White House, and founded an education NGO called IGNITE Peer Mentoring whose curriculum has been used by 100+ schools around the world. He was chosen by the U.S. State Department as one of two American delegates to UNESCO鈥檚 biennial forum on youth issues in Paris, and subsequently served as an advisor to the U.S. Commission to UNESCO on youth development and engagement.

Professor Hanna earned his MBA with honors as an Arjay Miller Scholar at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and was faculty-selected as one of five Siebel Scholars in his class on the basis of academic performance and leadership. He received a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the听Harvard Law Review, a student leader in Harvard Defenders and the Harvard African Law Association, and recipient of the Irving Oberman Memorial Prize for Law & Social Change. And he earned an A.B. with highest distinction from Duke University, where he was a Robertson Scholar, Senior Class President, and the faculty-selected recipient of the Terry Sanford Leadership Award. Professor Hanna has been named to the听Forbes听30 Under 30 List, and his work has been featured in the BBC, PBS,听Fast Company,听Forbes,听Financial Times, and more.

Research Interests

Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Human & Civil Rights Law

Academic Areas

• Strategy and Leadership