Fernanda Torre

FERNANDA TORRE embodies the interdisciplinary intersection between design, business and innovation, while exploring synergies between practice and research. With more than 15 years of experience, Torre is the CEO and Founding Partner of Next Agents, a consultancy on innovation management and design strategy, and is a Visiting Teacher affiliated to the House of Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), Sweden. Torre is a teacher in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship concentration of the SSE MBA, is a faculty member in the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, where she teaches Trendspotting & Future Forecasting and Design Thinking, as well as she is a Design Industry Leader at Hyper Island.

With a background in graphic design (Red Dot Design award 2014 with Gabor Palotai) and experience design (Beam me up, Scotty! award in Helsinki design fair, 2013), Torre has made her way into innovation management (Stora Enso Innovation Award for Intelligent Packaging, 2016). Fernanda has experience in the most diverse sectors such as innovation & design consulting (consulting for Above), renewable materials & manufacturing industry (Group Innovation and R&D in Stora Enso) in sustainability leadership (LEAD program in the Stockholm Resilience Centre), gendered medical innovations (Karolinska Centre for Gender Medicine, Department of Medicine) and entrepreneurship in creative industries (Balticlab, Swedish Institute and CBSS).

In terms of research, Torre is part of the Vinnova-funded project 4Boards.ai, together with Robin Teigland and Liselotte Ensgtam, aiming to support corporate boards in governing AI toward innovation and sustainability. Torre was also a proponent of the Biosphere Code, a manifesto for sustainable algorithmic development.

Furthermore, Torre is a founding member of the Speculative Futures Chapter in Stockholm, a board member of Innovationsledarna (Association for Innovation Management Professionals in Sweden) and a Swedish expert in the technical committee for the 56000 ISO standard on innovation management.

Fernanda Torre has a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the Stockholm School of Economics, awarded with the President’s List (for outstanding academic achievement) and the SSE Award for Class Contribution (voted by fellow MBAs). Fernanda has also a Master’s in Fine Arts in Experience Design from Konstfack (Vasakronan scholarship nomination and Ulla Fröberg-Cramérs Foundation scholarship) and Bachelor in Arts in Communication Design – Graphic Art Porto University. Fernanda also has a Trendspotting and Future Thinking course from the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and the National Institute of Design (NID) in India, and is a recognized public speaker and thought leader (TEDx Matosinhos, Design Talks Business in Gdynia Design Days). Fernanda is also the founder of Frames – Portuguese Film Festival in Sweden.