Can Social Entrepreneurs help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals? - USA & Canada

This workshop session, Can Social Entrepreneurs help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?, will be led by Professor Waya Quiviger and is intended to be a dynamic, interactive discussion.

Despite global attempts to eradicate poverty, over 4 billion people still lack access to basic resources and services, such as potable water, basic health services, and primary and secondary education. This session will explore how social entrepreneurs can find innovative solutions for the world’s 4 billion most underprivileged people, and in this way, play an important part in achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals of poverty and hunger eradication, access to education for all, clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy to name just a few.

About Professor Waya Quiviger

Waya Quiviger first joined IE Business School as Managing Director of the International MBA program. From 2009 to 2018, she was the Executive Director of the Master in International Relations. She is currently a Professor of Practice in Global Governance & Development and the Executive Director of the Transatlantic Relations Initiative at IE School of Global and Public Affairs.

Waya is also the lead coordinator of the annual Transatlantic Conference in collaboration with the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Fundación Rafael del Pino.

She holds an M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics (LSE), a Master in International Management from the Ecole Des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University (CA).