Leadership

LILLIE NOE

Program Lead
​Hunt Institute Social Enterprise​

Lillie is an MBA Candidate at SMU's Cox School of Business. Before her MBA, Lillie worked in sustainable local fashion production, where she learned to turn the many obstacles that face small businesses into opportunities for innovation. Now, Lillie helps startups with few resources develop strategy and a plan to scale. 

Lillie is particularly passionate about sustainability and social impact within the apparel industry, where sourcing practices often cause unsustainable damage to land and agrifood systems. She spent her summer interning with EILEEN FISHER, a leading sustainable apparel company, and she holds a B.S. in Textiles & Apparel and a B.A. in Plan II Honors from the University of Texas at Austin.
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At SMU, she leads the Cox chapter of Net Impact, an organization that brings together professionals who seek to give back to the community through their careers. Lillie advises local nonprofits and apparel industry startups in her spare time.
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DR. EVA CSAKY

Executive Director
​Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity

​Dr. Csaky has been working with social entrepreneurs from around the world for 25 years.  She also has significant global experience with the agrifood sector, having served as Lead for Sustainable Agrifood Value Chain Finance at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, working in over two dozen countries around the world.

​She focused her doctoral work on sustainable food systems, global value chains (GVCs) and smallholder farmer aggregation and inclusion in GVCs.  Locally, Dr. Csaky has been involved with the Dallas food desert problem and equitable and sustainable solutions since she arrived in Dallas 6 years ago.  She serves as an advisor to the United Nations.

For more information about Dr. Csaky, see her full bio here.

Advisory Council

DR. CANDICE BLEDSOE

Hunt Institute Fellow
​​Faculty, Simmons School of Education

DR. DUNCAN MCFARLANE

Hunt Institute Senior Fellow
​Lyle Chair in Engineering 
​Entrepreneurship

DEBRA PERRY 
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Hunt Institute Senior Fellow
Former Principal Investment Officer,  IFC

TAYLOR READY
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Associate,
​Mark Cuban Companies

YASMIN SAADAT

Senior Fellow
Agricultural Sector Expert
Former Global Trade-Commodity Head, IFC

PAUL SALVODELLI

CEO, Americas Management Group

SUZANNE SMITH

Founder, Social Impact Architects

BENJAMIN VANN

Founder and CEO, Impact Ventures

Hunt Institute Social Entrepreneurs also have access to our expert Fellows.

Team

STEWART NIXON

Hunt Institute MBA Consultant​​
Professional MBA Cohort 86
Concentration: Energy Finance

EMILY BROWN

Member, MBA Business Plan Committee
MA/MBA Class of 2021
Forté Fellow

HANNAH DOUGLAS

Member, MBA Business Plan Committee
MBA Class of 2020
Concentration:
​Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Forté Fellow