Founder
Dreams
InDeed International
Since
his AUB graduate studies in the 1980's, David Haskell has innovated for social
impact in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. David now mentors and
invests in social entrepreneurs in hard places as co-founder and CEO of Dreams
InDeed International. Formerly founding director of Habitat for Humanity
Middle East and East Africa, David has launched six start-ups and directed four
turn-arounds. David earned
an MPA from Harvard in Leadership, Negotiation and Mediation, and an MA in
Applied Linguistics from UCLA. A Harvard Pforzheimer Fellow and
University of Jordan Fulbright Scholar, David received a UCLA Outstanding
Teaching Award and has presented at the business or graduate schools of AUB,
Adelphi, Berkeley, Duke, Harvard, Notre Dame, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, and
Tufts. David has co-authored Harnessing
Values for Impact Beyond Profit in MENA (Palgrave-Macmillan,
2012), and Spiritual Resources
for Change in Hard Places: A Values-Driven Social Entrepreneurship Theory of
Change (ISCE Publishing,
2009).
