Eva Lacinová joins Center for Inclusive Growth as Social Impact Manager, Czechia and Poland. In this role, Eva will oversee Mastercard Strive Czechia and execute our Mastercard Strive Community and Ukrainian entrepreneur programs in Poland.

Eva joins us from the UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub, where she has worked on the engagement of innovators from the private sector into the UNDP practice in 13 countries, including Belarus, Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine, among others. She executed the outreach, exploration, and scale-up of solutions in cooperation with UNDP Accelerator Labs, and UNDP Istanbul International Centre for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD).

Prior to that, Eva worked at the Institute for International Relations in Prague, Czech Development Agency – CzechAID, or Diaconia of the ECCB – Centre of Development and Relief.

She obtained a Masters in Media Studies at Charles University, Prague, and a Masters in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of West Bohemia.