David Torres, Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and Global Health, Middlebury College

David Torres is a Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and Global Health at Middlebury College. He has worked at Middlebury College since January, 2019, teaching courses on Global Health, Social Entrepreneurship, MiddCORE, and the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

After graduating from Middlebury, David had a 22- year career in finance, working for JPMorgan Chase in a variety of investment banking and fixed income businesses across Latin America, the US and Europe.  

In 2006, David decided to end his career in banking and moved with his family to Cape Town, South Africa to join the management team at mothers2mothers, a Social Enterprise working across Sub-Saharan Africa to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and promote maternal and child healthcare. David fulfilled a number of senior roles at m2m, including management and support for business development, new-country start-up, fundraising, governance; donor, ministry of health and implementing partner relationship management, and a ground-breaking outcomes-based funding initiative. During the 12 years that David spent at m2m, the organization scaled its programming to ten countries, employed more than ten thousand women with HIV as Community Health Workers, and worked to support more than ten million women and children through its services. David serves as a board member to different social enterprises and foundations, and provides pro-bono organizational development support in the social sector