Poster Presentators
Warich Ngamkanjanarat, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States
Warich Ngamkanjanarat is a PhD candidate Business Administration – Entrepreneurship in Fall 2023, focusing on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. He is currently conducting research on regional entrepreneurial ecosystem under Dr. Rosanna Garcia and serves as the Entrepreneurship Program Manager at WPI’s i3 Lab startup incubator. He received a full merit-based scholarship from Thailand's Ministry of Science and Technology to study in the United States from his Bachelor's to PhD. He has collaborated with Suranaree University of Technology and the Thai government to strengthen Thailand's startup ecosystem and contribute to policy discussions in this space.
Tooba Asif, Buckinghamshire New University, United Kingdom
Tooba Asif is a PhD researcher from Pakistan, currently based in the United Kingdom. My academic work is grounded in a strong interest in gender, entrepreneurship, and social inequality, with a particular focus on the lived experiences of women in South Asian contexts. Having grown up in Pakistan, I bring an insider perspective to my research, informed by first-hand knowledge of the cultural, religious, and social dynamics that shape women’s economic participation. Living and studying in the UK has further enriched my scholarly approach by allowing me to engage critically with international research traditions, feminist methodologies, and comparative perspectives on entrepreneurship and gender. My doctoral research adopts a qualitative, interpretivist framework to explore how Pakistani women entrepreneurs navigate family expectations, moral norms, and institutional constraints in their entrepreneurial journeys. Through my work, I aim to contribute contextually grounded knowledge that challenges gender-neutral and Western-centric models of entrepreneurship and amplifies women’s voices from underrepresented settings.
