
Meet the Faculty, Facilitators, Speakers, Contributors & Team
Course Core Faculty Team & Hosts
Who you will meet in Costa Rica and on Virtual Sessions, if joining Cohort A or B. Your hosts on the ground are here to make you feel welcomed and ready to dive in to the course content, community & place. You can expect to be supported and in good hands with deeply experienced facilitators and passionate educators. In fact, even some of the team studied at University for Peace and know the context firsthand.
Course Faculty Lead & Initiator
Co-lead, United Nations
C3 Labs
Course Faculty Co-lead
Associate Director,
Stanford University
Course Faculty Co-Lead
Founder & CEO, PLAI

Course Faculty Co-Lead
Founder, Laila Sahar
Impact Innovation Course Facilitator & Ecosystem Weaver
Partner, Ashoka Globalizer & Founder, EcoFriends Saajedaariya SDDBtSD
Community Immersion
Residency Lead
Social Innovation Designer
Course Integration
Residency Lead
Impact Hub Cofounder & Board Member
Virtual Faculty & Support
Strategic Innovation Designer
Virtual 'Edge Session' Faculty & Hosts
Who you will meet in the Virtual Sessions if joining Cohort A, Cohort B and Cohort C (Virtual Track only). The sessions are curated & designed to offer insights that provoke, inspire, help you learn and unlearn. Think podcast energy, TED style moments of wisdom, with 'around the fireside' vibes. Many sessions will have more than one conversational partner, so expect to be invited in to participate and connect. Speakers shown in alphabetical order.

Virtual Faculty
Founder & CEO, RAKSHA Intelligence
Virtual Faculty
Program Associate, Oak Foundation & Radical Ecologies Board Member
Virtual Faculty
Founder & CEO, Research Alpha / Honorary Fellow, University of Oxford
Virtual Faculty
Co-founder, Innrwrks &
World of Wisdom Podcast

Virtual Faculty
Innovation Lead, OECD

Virtual Faculty
Founding Executive Director, Risman Foundation

Virtual Faculty
Executive & Leadership Coach, Founder, Sentio
Virtual Faculty
Producer & Writer,The Years Project

Virtual Faculty
Relational Design Advisor,
C3 Labs

Virtual Faculty
Founder & CEO, Envisioning

Virtual Faculty
Founder, Centre for Executive Education

Virtual Faculty
CEO, TechChange,
Professor, Columbia University

Virtual Faculty
Head of Sustainability,
Indonesia Young Entrepreneurs Association (HIPMI)
Virtual Faculty
Global Head of Impact, AIME
Virtual Faculty
Consultant, UNDP & School of International Futures

Virtual Faculty
Professor, Harvard University, Author, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

Virtual Faculty
Executive Director, Climate Surge, Amani, Global Good & Oxfam Boardmember, Author, The New Reason to Work
Virtual Faculty
Founder & CEO, Issa Solutions & SATI Foudation

Virtual Faculty
Senior Vice President, SecondMuse

Virtual Faculty
Strategist, Common Field & Founder, Body Space

Virtual Faculty
Co-founder & Co-CEO, House of Beautiful Business
Virtual Faculty
Award Winning Writer

Virtual Faculty
Consultant, World Bank Group, Co-founder, Thailand Clean Air Network
Centre for Executive Education Hosts
The Costa Rica based team at the CEE

Director,
Center for Executive Education

Founder,
Centre for Executive Education
A network of networks!
The course faculty & team have deep experience with impact oriented organizations all around the world - local to global, edge to mainstream, from grassroots to large scale, from theory to practice.


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