I am an academic and a social entrepreneur. In 2012, I have founded & launched SwissLeg with two former MASHLM students. SwissLeg is a social start-up that offers affordable high-mobility prostheses to low-income amputees in the developing world. Today, we have operations in Irbid, Jordan, and have been involved in projects in Jordan, Iraq and Syria, mainly helping victims of the Syrian and Iraqi wars.
In 2009, I designed & launched the Master in Humanitarian Logistics & Management (MASHLM). This part-time executive master program has been tremendously successful in training humanitarian practitioners. In 2013, following the success of MASHLM and in collaboration with the International...