Zahin Hussain-United National Development Programme Consultant (UNDP)

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/zahin-hussain/">Zahin Hussain</a>, "The Kamala Harris of Canada"- as I referenced in this episode due to her fearlessness, charisma, and work ethic of always leading by example.</p> <p>In this episode, you will learn about Zahin's meandering yet north stared journey across continents and countries across the world.&nbsp;</p> <p>I met Zahin in March of 2019 in Seoul, South Korea on a work-related project on studying emerging markets. At that time, she was an MBA Candidate at <a href="https://www.hanyang.ac.kr/web/eng/home/">Hanyang University</a>, one of the leading private research institutions in Seoul, South Korea. She was also the Program Manager at <a href="https://hvc.hanyang.ac.kr/hyu-%EC%82%AC%ED%9A%8C%ED%98%81%EC%8B%A0%EC%84%BC%ED%84%B0/%EC%B0%BD%EC%97%85/huge-ventures/?ckattempt=1">HUGE Ventures</a>, which designed and implemented an impact-focused entrepreneurship sandbox that provides tailored training, access to networks, and seed funding.&nbsp;</p> <p>In Zahin's earlier work traversing several Asian countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines, which we went into more details in this episode, she has worked at <a href="https://aiesec.vn/">AIESEC Vietnam </a>as head of Business Development. And in the Philippines, she worked as the Partnerships Manager, Youth of Asia at the<a href="https://www.adb.org/"> Asian Development Bank (ADB)</a>, wherein she was exposed to several stakeholders including some leading members of Hanyang University (the President and Vice-President of the institution) &nbsp;at the ADB Annual Meeting in Japan. This is also where she got to know about the University and its mission to invest in young people and the SDGs.&nbsp;</p> <p>With the relationship, she built through her exposure in her role at ADB, she was offered a role at Hanyang University, wherein she saw that as an opportunity to learn more about South Korea, as an economy that sky-rocketed into the 5th largest economy in the world and later on enrolled in the MBA program at the