Member Profile
Dr. Diana Yousef, PhD, MBA (Founder, CEO) has 15+ yrs experience commercializing scientific & technology innovations for social impact. Her career combines bioscience research, venture capital/private equity investing, strategy consulting and international development. She co-founded the Life Sciences Investment Group of the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank, investing in growth-stage biotech and agritech companies in India, China and other emerging markets. She also served as a strategy consultant with McKinsey and Company, working with clients across several sectors and business functions. She was a seed-stage venture investor with Battelle Ventures and Kidd and Company, investing in and catalyzing companies around emerging technologies in the cleantech, biotech and IT. As an entrepreneur, she founded and co-founded a number of cleantech ventures including Immerse Global (Stanford spin-out to develop atmospheric water capture technologies) and SachSiSolar (MIT spin-out to develop revolutionary new materials to improve the efficiency of polycrystalline solar). She is a former protein biochemist (B.A., Harvard; Ph.D., Cornell), and holds an MBA and an MA in International Development (Columbia). She was an inaugural member of TED Fellows Advisory and Selection Committee, a Founding Council Member for NASA/USAID’s LAUNCH Accelerator, and a 2017-8 Inventor Ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and the Lemelson Foundation. She was a 2018 finalist for the Cartier Women’s Initiative Award; one of 5 Global Winners of the 2018 Chivas-Regal Venture Competition; and currently a 2018-9 Top 10 Finalist for the African Innovation Prize.
Proposals
The iThrone: crap-evaporating toilets for communities with no power or plumbing | Jun 30, 2019 |
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The iThrone: crap-evaporating toilets for communities with no power or plumbing | Aug 9, 2019 |
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Diana Yousef updated a proposal The iThrone: crap-evaporating toilets for communities with no power or plumbing | Aug 12, 2019 |
Diana Yousef is supporting proposal The iThrone: crap-evaporating toilets for communities with no power or plumbing | Aug 9, 2019 |
Diana Yousef created a Proposal The iThrone: crap-evaporating toilets for communities with no power or plumbing | Jun 30, 2019 |
Diana Yousef joined the Climate CoLab community | Jun 30, 2019 |