Impact at Scale

Just before Pinnapa Satitpatanapan headed to Manila to take up a position at the Asia Development Bank, Michael Waitze caught up with her to discuss her experience studying at Yale, her passion for impact investing, and how to support the growth of impact investing in Thailand. Pinnapa did a Bachelor of Business Administration at Thammasat Univesity before gaining experience in the investment bank...

In this episode, Michael Waitze and Daniel McFarlane , are fortunate to converse with Stéphane Rousseau , who is the Director of International Field Immersion Courses at the School of Global Studies at Thammasat University. He brings an enormous wealth of experience to the conversation after decades of humanitarian, human rights, and civil society work across Asia and the Pacific. Over the years,...

In this episode of the Social Innovation podcast is an energizing conversation between Courtney Savie Lawrence and Michael Waitze .  Courtney, originally from Nashville, Tennessee, arrived in Asia seven years ago with the perspective "the world is so much bigger than our own bubble.”  After co-founding a social enterprise in the US, she was recruited to develop a Global Studies program a...

In this episode of the Social Innovation Podcast Dipendra KC talks with Michael Waitze about his experience founding and running a youth organization in Nepal, and a new master's degree program of Social Innovation and Sustainability at the School of Global Studies at Thammasat University. When Dipendra and his friends were seeking our work experience as young college students, they kept being ask...