Visiting Professors Profiles
Meike Siegner
Meike Siegner is an interdisciplinary social scientist with specializations in sustainability, social entrepreneurship, and sustainable business management. She has worked on novel forms of organizing in the realm of forest sector sustainability, community-based resource stewardship, green buildings (bio-based building materials), energy and food. She is currently conducting research on climate solutions for the built environment, such as timber cities and bio-based building materials.
She was part of the sustainable business management group at the UBC Faculty of Forestry in Vancouver, Canada, where she spearheaded entrepreneurship and social innovation-focused research in a natural resources context. Meike is active in both the business management and forestry research communities, serving as the website manager of the Social Issues in Management SIM division of the Academy of Management, and acting as lead social scientist for a government-led initiative to support supply chain resilience in Canadian wood products markets.
Over the years, Meike has extensively consulted nonprofits and social enterprises around the world on market access strategies, impact measurement, and digital storytelling, including as Mitacs Accelerate Program Fellow (2016 batch), and with the WU Centre for Excellence in Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Organizations. Meike is also a public speaker on topics related to community social enterprises and sustainable development, having spoken at both national and international fora, such as Buy Social Canada and United Nations ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI).
Meike supports the Innovation for Social Impact Partnership Initiative since 2019, during which she has successfully partnered with top universities and colleges in the Philippines to leverage research and teaching on Technopreneurship 101, with a particular focus on social entrepreneurship, circular economy, and ESG reporting. She obtained her Bachelor and Masters degree from Vienna University and her PhD degree from the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Siegner was deployed at the University of San Carlos and virtually deployed at Central Luzon State University and at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. This 2023, she will be virtually deployed to Mindanao State University - Marawi.
University of San Carlos x Meike Siegner
One of the topics that Ms. Siegner discussed during her deployment was Circular Economy and Sustainable Business Management. The USC Team found this stimulating which led them to further engage in circular economy projects and researches.
Ms. Siegner also reviewed the Technopreneurship minor that USC is planning to roll out. She provided comments and inputs on the subjects required to be taken under this minor and the topics that will be taught in each. Aside from taking note of Ms Siegner's comments, the USC Team also integrated the topics she discussed during her deployment such as Circular Economy and Social Innovation.