Gabriel Sebastian
Program Manager and Advisor to the Maverick Next Board
Population Services International (PSI)
Education
Maastricht University
B.S., International Business
2013ESADE Business School
M.I.E., Entrepreneurship
2014Podcasts
37:3317: What It’s Like to Work in International Development With Gabriel Sebastian, Population Services International [Main T4C Episode]
Gabriel (Gabe) Sebastian is a young Program Manager* in Mexico at Population Services International (PSI)], a global health organization, who has spent his entire life surrounded by philanthropists and social entrepreneurs all over the globe. He was born in Bolivia and spent much of his childhood in Mozambique. His parents..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“You wake up and there’s hundreds of emails and hundreds of calls, and you have to prioritize. So that’s the most common day you can have. And throughout this entire day, you might be speaking two or three languages in the span of nine hours or writing in these languages as well. So it’s quite interesting and sometimes quite taxing.”
Best Career Advice
“The moment you stop learning from your job, just move on, apply to something else, change countries.”
Career Challenge
“The first one was definitely Harambee, I felt like I was on top of the world. Being a global finalist they treat you like the hype Silicon Valley gives to potential startups that crash and burn a few months later. So once we got to the global finals, we’re surrounded by people who are just flying us all over the place. We were doing interviews. Our pictures were everywhere. I felt like I was on top of the world. And when that collapsed, I was 24. Mentally I wasn’t prepared to fail because I felt like I kept winning in life at that point.”
Skills
Public Speaking, Entrepreneurship, People Skills, Market Research, Strategy, Project Management, Research, Sales, Microsoft Office, Teamwork, Design Thinking, Networking, Business Model Innovation
Professional Interests
World Health Organization, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seymourpowell, Apoyo Positivo, Global Health Council, Alumni Maastricht University, Universiteit Maastricht, ESADE
