Eva Wascher is a researcher at the Research Unit Transformative Governance in Cities and Regions at the Social Research Center (sfs), TU Dortmund University. She studied Business Administration, Economics and Philosophy at Berlin School of Economics and Law, Dublin Institute of Technology and Ruhr-University Bochum. She holds an MA in "Ethics- Economics, Law and Politics (EELP)". She has worked in the field of social entrepreneurship, social finance as well as social innovation. Her research interests include social innovation for sustainability as well as transformative and collaborative governance.