Barbara Houis the former executive co-director for Harvard Innovations and Ventures in Education (HIVE), a campus organization that supports educational entrepreneurship at Harvard University. Previously, she founded the Asian Women’s Leadership University (AWLU) Project, a 501(c)(3) educational startup dedicated to establishing a global women’s leadership university based in Asia. She has also practiced as a corporate lawyer in the Hong Kong offices of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Allen & Overy LLP. She is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Michigan Law School.
