Kanika Verma leads the Green and Inclusive Entrepreneurship vertical of the Development Alternatives Group. She is, currently, also part of the founding team and Director of Indian Micro Enterprises Development Foundation, a section 8 company, that aims to build local ecosystems for green and inclusive entrepreneurship. Kanika is passionate about social innovation and system change and sees herself ‘building bridges’ from grassroots work to global discourse on inclusive innovation, entrepreneurship and the future of work. She is the co founder of systems play, a platform for fostering collaboration, experimentation and learning with system innovators. She also leads the la Caixa Banking Foundation supported “Work 4 Progress” programme at DA – a social innovation platform for entrepreneurship driven job creation for women and youth.She is currently pursuing an M.Phil. with a specialisation in Inclusive Innovation at University of Cape Town. She led a financial investment firm in U.S.A. for seven years prior to joining Development Alternatives Group in 2011 to pursue her ambition of being a social entrepreneur.