Leading the Programmes & Projects team at Stimulus with a focus on sustainability, clean-tech and innovation, Hira Wajahat is the Pakistan National Lead for ClimateLaunchpad, a global green business ideas competition. She is also actively engaged as a business mentor and coach, consulting with and facilitating trainings for start-ups and new business ventures. Hira is passionate about developing the social and climate impact entrepreneurial eco-system in Pakistan. For this reason, she has founded CleanTech Republik, a community network that supports product development and implementation of services having a positive social and environmental impact.

Over the last 10 years, Hira has had the opportunity to work with an array of organizations across various industries: energy, FMCGs, pharma, agribusiness, healthcare, education, media & NGOs/NPOs. She has also been involved in the initiation of two entrepreneurial ventures that are running successfully. Her simultaneous exposure to corporate, government, education and development sectors has led her to believe in the importance of systems thinking and benefits of partnerships for value addition.

Currently, Hira is also engaged as adjunct faculty at SZABIST, Karachi, teaching the courses "Sustainability and Technology", "Introduction to Entrepreneurship & SMEs", “Technopreneurship” & “Product Innovation and Design” to undergraduate students.