Design Thinking for Development Cooperation | Victoria Peter | TEDxBerlin

For more information on Victoria Peter, please visit our website www.tedxberlin.de Victoria has one heart in France and one beating in West Africa, where she develops and promotes citizen engagement and multi- stakeholder collaboration programs. Her
rm believe: whatever development means - if anything, it must be based on citizen engagement.
This is why she passionately develops the regional branch of MakeSense in West-Africa – a global organisation mobilising citizens, private and public sector to solve social
and environmental issues by accelerating grassroots entrepreneurship and social innovation.
Apart from creativity workshops and many post-its, Victoria also accompanies African entrepreneurs and big organisations in France and Africa seeking to develop solutions for sustainable food systems. She defends the
cause of citizen engagement and impactful entrepreneurship at various conferences in and around the African continent.
Victoria has been working with citizens, entrepreneurs and big organisations since the age of 20. After developing a social enterprise foundation in Amsterdam at the age of 19 and building an innovation network for the ght against food waste in her early 20ies, she also placed open innovation and entrepreneurship within big companies, such as the Deutsche Bahn.
Victoria holds a Masters Degree in International Development and Africa from Sciences Po, Paris. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx