I first met Alex when he gave a TED talk about social enterprise. I was like, ‘WTF is he on about?’, but there was no doubt he knew his topic and was so passionate about it. Back then he was transforming the struggling Hikurangi Trust into the Akina Foundation. Akina went on to host the Social Enterprise World Forum in Christchurch in 2017, where 1600 people came together from across the globe. Alex is now in Brisbane at the Yunus Centre, where he holds a professorship for being such a smart bugger.