About The Speaker
Laura di Santolo
Co-founder and CEO of Forward Incubator.Laura Di Santolo is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Forward·Inc, a foundation offering entrepreneurship programs and events for people with a refugee background. Forward·Inc is an Amsterdam-based, internationally operating organisation devoted to helping newcomers pursue their entrepreneurial dreams.Driven to reach more and more newcomers worldwide with top-notch business and entrepreneurship education, she pushes her team every day to go the extra mile. Her main goal is to support 4000 newcomers yearly by 2026 to start their own business, allowing them to achieve economic independence for themselves, their families and the communities they live in. She holds a double MSc degree by CEMS from Rotterdam School of Management and Vienna University of Economics and Business, which awarded her the junior alumna of the year in 2021. She is also part of the Top 100 Women in Social Entrepreneurship in Europe 2022 by Euclid. Since 2021 she is actively involved as an advisory board member at Village Capital.