Christian Vanizette

Co-founder, MakeSense.org
France

Christian grew up in French Polynesia. His entrepreneurial apprenticeship started at 15 when he launched an anonymous blog about politics and economics, the first of its kind to give an independent overview of the situation in Tahiti, and especially discussing colonialism.

Sparked by a book by Mohammad Yunus, in 2010 Christian embarked on a trip across Asia to meet social entrepreneurs and to help them solve their challenges. And as Christian curated a blog about his experience; he also saw the potential of a huge community of young people around the world to contribute their creativity to helping social entrepreneurs’ problem-solve. This sparked the idea of MakeSense.

The power of MakeSense also lies in the community’s openness: Christian has created entry points, engagement formats and incentives for anyone who wants to participate in positive social change to easily join the MakeSense community. He started with the young idealists 2.0 who are familiar with new technologies and have fast-paced lives and engagement capacity, before developing strategies to include professors and students in university contexts, and professionals in their work environment.

Christian Vanizette has designed an accessible, yet highly structured approach for social entrepreneurs worldwide to resolve strategic and operational challenges.