Victor d'Allant

As Executive Director of Social Edge, Victor d’Allant is responsible for building a global online community where social entrepreneurs, nonprofit professionals and other practitioners of the social sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources.

Victor is a global media executive and cultural anthropologist who has worked for large corporations, international organizations and entrepreneurial startups in many parts of the world.

His executive positions have included Chief Executive Officer of Ascribe, a public interest newswire, and Vice President - Business Development of AudioBasket, a provider of personalized audio news on the Internet. He was also Advertising Sales Director for Reader's Digest in Europe and Managing Director of San Francisco magazine.

Before his involvement in digital media, Victor built and ran his own international media consultancy, helping communications companies and technology-based ventures expand their global operations. His clients included Newsweek, Bloomberg, Nokia Innovent, Wired, Outside magazine and Deloitte & Touche.

His work as a cultural and business anthropologist included field research on French truck drivers working in the Middle East, mental health issues in India for the World Health Organization and agricultural development in Burkina Faso for the World Bank.

He started his career as a Paris-based photojournalist reporting on economic and social issues from Brazil, India, Turkey, Yemen, Burkina Faso and Bangladesh. He received the Air France Award for Photojournalism and his work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Paris.

Victor served for four years on the Advisory Board of the Women’s Technology Cluster in San Francisco. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the French American International School in San Francisco.

He has a B.A. and an M.A. in social anthropology from the Sorbonne in Paris and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.