Impact Community & Social Impact Lab Manager
Dalia Silberstein
Universities & Institutions
- ESADE
Areas of Expertise
- Social impact
- Sustainability
- Impact tech
- Social economy
- Startups
- Entrepreneurship
Biography
Dalia manages the ESADE Social Impact Lab, a specialisation track for MBA students and the Impact Community. She is also a researcher focusing on Impact Tech Startups, Impact Measurement and Social Entrepreneurship.
Prior to joining ESADE, Dalia was a researcher with the Center for Impact Investment and Entrepreneurship at the College of Management Academic Studies of Israel, working on a study focused on AI-based SDG classification of Impact Tech Startups. She co-authored, together with recognised economist Professor Bernardo Kliksberg, the book ‘Social Responsibility in Action: The Example of Social Entrepreneurs (2015).’
Dalia serves as a mentor for impact accelerators and has taught courses on Social Entrepreneurship at various universities. She co-founded Nomada Impact and the Latin American University Network for Social Entrepreneurship. She also led the first Master’s Program on Social Entrepreneurship in LatAm at the Catholic University of Salta in Argentina. She worked as an adviser with The National Council of Science and Technology for the Government of Mexico, leading the project “Technology for Social Inclusion.” Earlier, she worked for the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network SEKN, as well as for Simmons University in Boston.