Noreen Marian Bautista
OIC, BCYF Institute for Social Enterprise & Development
Noreen Marian Bautista is a Filipino social entrepreneur. She co-founded a social enterprises that won the Business in Development Challenge Philippines in 2009 and represented the Philippines in the International BID Challenge in the Netherlands. Her work with social enterprise communities fueled her zeal to catalyze entrepreneurs in order to bridge the wealth inequality in the growing but unevenly distributed economy of the Philippines. In 2014, she was among the youngest representatives to the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. She is now Officer-in-charge (OIC) of the BCYF Institute for Social Enterprise & Development, a department of the BCYFoundation, and the Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence of St. Mutien College. Noreen graduated with honors at the John Gokongwei School of Management, Ateneo de Manila University with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Management major in Communications Technology, minor in Enterprise Development. She is also part of the Global Shapers Manila Hub of the World Economic Forum and the youngest member of the Board of Directors of the Philippine Science High School National Alumni Association.