Warner P. Woodworth is a global social entrepreneur and professor emeritus in the Department of Management in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University (BYU).
Woodworth holds BS and MS degrees from BYU and an MA and PhD from the University of Michigan.
He is also the founder and current chairman of MicroBusiness Mentors that seeks to empower Latino immigrants to the USA.
Woodworth has mobilized thousands of American volunteers to fight global poverty and empower poor villages around the world.
Woodworth has been a consistent and vocal critic of the growing trend of for-profit organizations entering into operations that they have claimed constitute microfinancing.