Speaker Name(s): George Roter
Description: George Roter is one of Canada’s emerging leaders in the non-profit sector. He strongly believes that Canadians are passionate about driving social change both within the country’s borders and abroad. He has dedicated the past 7 years of his life to building organizations that engage a broad cross-section of people, and specifically foster the involvement of the next generation of leaders. Most of that dedication and effort has been focused on building Engineers Without Borders (EWB), an organization that, together with Parker Mitchell, he co-founded and where he continues to serve as Co-CEO. George initially became interested in international development while completing his Bachelor’s degree in engineering at the University of Waterloo. He quickly learned that technology could drive extraordinary change in the lives of the poorest people in the world, and that the engineering community had not been tapped into as a resource.