Fionn Dobbin is a lecturer and Creative Industries Program Director at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga with a diploma in Industrial Design from the UdK-Berlin. During his studies he has worked as an Innovation Team Designer for the Adam Opel GmbH and as a Creative Director for the Latvian design company ZNAK. After his diploma, a social business sanitation concept he started working as a Social Business Designer for the creative think tank and consultant company “The Grameen Creative Lab” of the peace prize laureate Dr.Muhammad Yunus. Since 2005, he has worked for several clients such as DDB/Riga, MOOZ/Riga, ZNAK/Riga, BritishCouncil/Riga, Riga CityCouncil, Circ/Wiesbaden,OSKO&DEICHMANN/Berlin, UDK/Berlin and Aalto/Helsinki.
His core business as a freelance creative advisor in developing new ways and strategies in the fields of human interaction and communication within the environment. Besides his main business as a lecturer at the SSE Riga and as a creative advisor he is a founder and Creative Director of the social business fashion company MAMMU and “Design Development and Production Ltd”.
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