Hult Prize 2025–2026: Qualifier at the Luxembourg School of Business
At the Hult Prize 2025–2026 Qualifier at the Luxembourg School of Business (LSB), Dr. Björn Bronger chaired the jury – together with Pascal Wiscour-Conter, Robert Weinhold and Zoltan Horvath.
The winning team: Chadia Ghelab-Fanizza, Neha Verma and Ivan Brice Ngounou Djieubou. Their venture stood out for its clarity of problem focus, thoughtful business model and measurable impact aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The Qualifier round brought together strong entrepreneurial energy across all participating teams – each presenting scalable, for-profit ideas designed to create real impact by 2030.
Thanks to the fellow jury members for the focused and insightful discussions throughout the day, and to the Luxembourg School of Business for hosting and organising this stage of one of the world’s largest student entrepreneurship competitions.
Every success to the winning team in the next stage of the journey.
About the EF Hult Prize
The EF Hult Prize is the world’s largest student startup competition: every year, students in more than 130 countries build for-profit startups that tackle at least one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
About
Dr. Björn Bronger, MBA, is a strategic adviser to startups and lawyer, as well as lecturer in entrepreneurship at the Luxembourg School of Business (LSB).
He advises founders, investors, private clients and family offices at the intersection of strategy, finance and law. Focus areas:
- Startups & Entrepreneurs (incorporation, financing rounds, ESOP, exit)
- Corporate Governance (governing bodies, directors’ duties, shareholder relations)
- Contracts (commercially effective, legally robust)
- Immigration & Residence (market entry, residence, citizenship)
