Alina Shkolnikov is the Chief Partnership Officer at PollyLabs and a lecturer at The New School. She specializing in strategic innovation, impact investments, and catalytic blended capital. She previously built and led impact strategy at the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation in Israel, managed global innovation programs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and ran global accelerators across multiple countries. Her work focuses on building cross-sector partnerships and financially sustainable models for scalable social and environmental impact. She hold an MA in Military Strategy and Security