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WDI’s Energy and Mobility team completed a Climate Tech Ecosystem report and online map for the State of Chihuahua, Mexico as part of a collaboration with local innovation and climate tech leaders Startup Chihuahua and Startup Juárez, in addition to other partners.

WDI will host four public sessions as part of the Glocal Conference, a virtual global gathering of thousands of professionals focused on collecting data for evidence-based decision making.

For more than 30 years, WDI has supported Multi-Disciplinary Action Projects - a requirement for first-year MBA students at the University of Michigan. This year, WDI sponsored nine projects involving 36 students, in collaboration with our partners in the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mexico, Uganda and Vietnam.

The William Davidson Institute's Energy and Mobility team traveled to Manila, the capital city of the Philippines as part of a new research project with the Asian Development Bank: “Accelerating Innovation in Transport - E-mobility in the Philippines.”

Performance Measurement & Impact WDI sent two leaders with deep expertise in developing enterprises and understanding impact: Rajat Chabba, Senior Director of Innovation and Partnerships (pictured above), and Yaquta Fatehi, Program Manager for Performance Measurement & Impact. At the recent Sankalp Africa Summit, WDI Leaders Explored the Evolving role of incubators and…

Diana Páez, WDI Senior Director, Energy & Mobility, participated in a panel organized by the Brookings Institution. The panel, "USMCA Forward 2025 launch: Navigating North American trade amid global changes” explored the impact of tariffs and trade policy on the auto industry, including electric vehicle production.

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.

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.