European Leadership Team Member at Ashoka Europe | Austria

Karin Haselböck is passionate about creating a world where everyone is empowered to live a good life. For her, diversity, equity, and inclusion are crucial contributions to the change for the good of us all. Karin is an Ashoka Europe Leadership Team Member and 100% shares their vision of “everyone a changemaker”. She believes that everyone can build the changemaking muscles needed to thrive in the economy of the future and that we need cities which enable all of us to master today’s pace of change. Karin emphasises that we need a systems mindset and collaboration between all sectors to successfully improve our cities. Civic society and every citizen need to be seen, heard, and included in decision making, especially young people. This new ‘game’ demands fresh skills and a different mindset. Karin’s work at Ashoka contributes to bringing social innovation to our cities.