Maryam, is the Director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISER) and an Assistant Professor of Business at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Mohiuddin Ahmed is a former human rights lawyer and obtained her LL.M. in International Law from the University of California, Berkeley, her B.A./ LL.B degrees from LUMS University, Pakistan, and her PhD in Sustainability Management from the University of Waterloo.
A serial social entrepreneur and social innovation scholar-practitioner, Dr. Mohiuddin Ahmed’s work foregrounds decolonial and relational approaches to entrepreneurship, finance, systems change, and knowledge creation. Maryam’s research and pedagogy center ‘dialogues of wisdoms’ and plural ways of knowing, doing, and being to reimagine social innovation as a path toward more equitable, regenerative futures.
Maryam is a co-steward of the Transition Bridges Project (TBP), a collaborative initiative pioneering systems mediation to address polycrisis. TBP’s practice involves acting as intermediaries across actors, scales, and systems to facilitate dialogue, mutual understanding, conflict transformation, and collective action toward resilient regenerative communities. As well, Maryam co-founded the Social Innovation Lab, a social innovation ecosystem builder in South Asia, and Daftarkhwan, the largest co-working space network in Pakistan. She is an Acumen Fellow, an International Youth Foundation Laureate Global Fellow, a Wolf Willow Positive Deviants Fellow, and an Earth Law Fellow at the Earth Law Center.
Maryam’s current work bridges academic inquiry and lived practice through community-engaged learning, critical pedagogy, and systems-mediation experimentation.
