Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl is Co-Director of the European Center for Social Finance at the Munich Business School and Managing Director of Next Generation Impact in Vienna. Since completing his doctorate on 'financing social enterprises' at the Technical University of Munich, he has worked on the development of the social finance market for the European Commission and written studies on social finance for the European Parliament or the European Liberal Forum, among others. In 2017, he co-authored a book on impact investing. He regularly advises social finance intermediaries and is currently developing AI and blockchain-based concepts for the impact sector.