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WDI has named Rajat Chabba as Senior Director of Innovation and Partnerships, a new position for the Institute. Chabba plays a pivotal role for WDI in building strategic partnerships and catalytic collaborations.

Since 2015, the William Davidson Institute and its partners have provided NGO Leadership Workshops to non-profit leaders from across Central and Southeastern Europe. In October, 25 NGO leaders from across Ukraine attended the interactive management training sessions in Warsaw, Poland, designed to empower Ukrainian civil society amidst the ongoing war.

A grant from the J. Christopher Stevens Virtual Exchange Initiative will enable the Climate Entrepreneurship Exchange to give undergraduate students global collaboration and learning opportunities—without them having to leave their home communities.

The next big energy and mobility technology breakthroughs can come from anywhere in the world, and many have their roots in university labs and research centers. Building on more than three years of collaboration, WDI is partnering with multiple stakeholders in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico to create new pathways for energy and mobility tech innovations to leap from the lab to commercial application.

WDI invites you to a learning webinar featuring EV leaders in Costa Rica, Mexico and the Philippines. Each with a different market perspective, this public WDI discussion will reveal how emerging actors and new collaborations are energizing the EV value chain.

In partnership with government and industry leaders in Chihuahua, Mexico, WDI has created concise case studies of companies pivoting to take advantage of new electric mobility opportunities.

With submissions from South Africa to Colombia and from Ireland to India, WDI Publishing proudly announces the winners of its 2024 HealthTech and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Global Case Writing Competitions.

The Kenya Climate Innovation Center’s three-year incubator and accelerator program, funded by the IKEA Foundation, will support 110 enterprises in the waste management sector. Our team is using a systems lens to evaluate how these companies are impacting their local economies & communities.

Over the last three years, WDI has been elevating Vietnamese business leaders’ skills through its Advanced Mini-MBA Program at the FPT School of Business & Technology (FSB). This partnership brings together educators and business leaders to expand participants’ management skills, bolster business education opportunities and encourage economic growth in the country.

WDI is hosting a group of 12 engineering faculty from six different universities and research institutes in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, as part of a study visit to Michigan this week. The visit is part of the Zero-Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) academic partnership implemented by WDI with support from the U.S. Mission Mexico Public Diplomacy Section.