Margaret Rose-Goddard

Margaret Rose is a lawyer, anti-corruption and transparency advocate, and a serial social entrepreneur driven to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges through policy, innovation and empathy. Currently pursuing her doctorate in International Public Procurement Policy & Research at the University of Bath, UK, Margaret has founded multiple initiatives geared toward empowering citizens to become more effective in their engagement in public governance and as guardians of the public interest in Trinidad and Tobago and the UK including the Caribbean Procurement Institute, a specialist provider of public procurement law education, professional capacity building and consulting services to Governments and public sector bodies and its successor, Procurement Innovation & Leadership Lab UK, which aims to help public sector bodies to design and implement innovative data-driven procurement policy for inclusion and SDG impact.

In 2014 Margaret won the Global Social Entrepreneurship Initiative awarded by Transparency International (TI) and the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) for developing the innovative civic technology platform Disclosure Today which is a social governance network connecting citizen activists with pro bono lawyers and digitizing legally compliant freedom of information requests in Trinidad and Tobago.

In 2016 Margaret founded U-Solve School of Empathic Leadership & Entrepreneurship an entrepreneurial eco-system builder to address global challenges and which is currently pioneering research on ‘Empathic Anger’ and ‘Impact Measurement for SDG Readability.’

Margaret’s work in U-Solve centers around building the capacity of social impact entrepreneurs for personal resilience and to design, structure and lead multi-stakeholder partnerships for social change.