The Social Impact Club at London Business School, in collaboration with the Wheeler Institute of Business and Development, London Business School, is pleased to host "Conversation with Sunil Lalvani", a documentary screening and fireside chat with Sunil Lalvani, a British-born Asian social entrepreneur who has lived and worked across the UK, Hong Kong, India, Russia, Nigeria, and Ghana before settling in Dubai in 2002.
After a successful entrepreneurial journey, he joined his family’s electronics business, Binatone, in 1994, becoming Group Managing Director in 2008. During his tenure until 2015, he shifted the company’s core operations to the UAE.
In 2014, a visit to Ghana exposed him to the harsh realities of water scarcity, inspiring him to found Project Maji (www.projectmaji.org), a social enterprise providing sustainable access to safe water in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Project Maji’s innovative approach has been featured in the Harvard Business Review and is a Harvard Business School case study. Operating from Dubai’s International Humanitarian City, Project Maji now delivers clean water to over 400,000 people in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. Sunil is a full-time social entrepreneur, speaker, and advocate for social impact and impact investing. His work has been recognized by Entrepreneur, Real Leaders, and CNBC, and he envisions Project Maji as a key player in ending the global water crisis.
Project Maji has earned several accolades, including the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award and the YPO Global Impact Award.
