Mikael Baker is an MBAs Without Borders Advisor supporting Water For People (WFP) in their effort to launch and scale Sanitation Solutions, a Sanitation as a Business (SaaB) social enterprise in Kampala, Uganda. Mikael and WFP will collaborate with Ugandan micro-entrepreneurs to develop business models across the sanitation value chain. With a breadth of cross-functional, cross-sectoral, and cross-cultural experience as well as a passion for sustainable development, Mikael believes that bottom-up, market-driven approaches are key to creating sustainable social impact.
My epiphany came as I was recovering from serious orthopedic surgery. I had ruptured a disk and nearly broken my back in a snowboarding accident. I lay bedridden in a hos...