Social Enterprise Speaker Series: Valeria Budinich, Vice President of the Full Economic Citizenship Initiative at Ashoka USA
Wednesday, February 08, 2006, Phelps Lounge, Ross School of Business
Valeria Budinich will speak on February 8, 2006 at 4:30pm in Phelps Lounge, Ross School of Business with a reception to follow.
Ms Budinich has worked for 20 years in the creation and expansion of business development programs in 22 countries worldwide. At Ashoka, as the Vice-President leading the Full Economic Citizenship Initiative, Valeria focuses on enabling commercial alliances between social entrepreneurs and private companies to deliver products and services to small producers and low-income families. Her main area of professional interest is finding ways to harness the collective power of social and business entrepreneurs. Prior to joining Ashoka, she was the Chief Operating Officer at Appropriate Technology International (ATI), a global non-profit foundation specializing in providing technical and financial assistance to small and medium sized enterprises in rural areas. She was also a founding Vice-President for Latin America at Endeavor, a foundation specialized in linking entrepreneurs in emerging economies with venture capital investors in the US. From 1999-2001, Valeria served as VP for New Initiatives at BDA, a California-based consulting firm specializing in business process redesign and technology innovations for private sector clients worldwide. She was brought up in Chile and trained as an industrial engineer.
This initiative brings academics, practitioners, and others to the University of Michigan to discuss various aspects of social enterprise. For more information about this or future speaker series events, please contact Jelena Sljivic at Sljivic@umich.edu.
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