Laurel Steinfield

Laurel Steinfield (BComm, MSc, DPhil) is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ivey Business School, University of Western. Her work focuses on inequities and explores (social) innovations/enterprises that can improve livelihoods.

She has over 15 years of experience working in and with social enterprises/entrepreneurs, and conducting research that examines gender lens impact investing, entrepreneurship in Eastern/Southern Africa, women economic empowerment initiatives, and solutions to improve climate resilience among vulnerable communities.

As a transformative consumer research scholar and former Associate Professor of Marketing at Bentley University (USA), she views social innovations/enterprises as a key mechanism with which to address intersectional injustices and to achieve the sustainable development goals.