Professor is new European Research Network on Philanthropy President

Professor Tobias Jung, Head of the School of Management, has been elected as the new President of the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP).

Founded in 2008, ERNOP is an international interdisciplinary network focused on advancing, coordinating and promoting excellence in research on philanthropy in Europe.

Professor Jung said:

This is both a great honour and a fantastic opportunity to advance the European philanthropy research field.

While Europe can look back on centuries of philanthropic practices and traditions, the knowledge base on philanthropy has tended to be dominated by insights and ideas from the US.

Strengthening contextual and more nuanced understanding of philanthropy in Europe, and for European philanthropy policy and practice, is paramount.

If we want to successfully utilise the significant potential philanthropy presents for addressing pressing social, economic and environmental challenges, we need to make sure that we proceed from a robust, critically-reflective and research-informed knowledge base.

Professor Jung is also director of the Centre for the Study of Philanthropy and Public Good (CSPPG) which he founded with colleagues at St Andrews in 2016.

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