Nesta is an innovation foundation. For us, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality and changing
lives for the better. We use our expertise, skills and funding in areas where there are big challenges facing society.
Alastair Moore, Senior Teaching Fellow, University College London and Head of Analytics and Machine Learning, Mishcon de Reya – a law firm
Andrea Coleman, Government Innovation, Bloomberg Philanthropies – a New York-based foundation that works on the environment, public health, the arts, government innovation and education
Andrew Thornley, Managing Director, Saraswati – a social enterprise based in Indonesia focusing on innovation for development
Anna Majo Crespo, Digital Innovation Director, I-Lab Barcelona – an innovation lab that accelerates sustainable and social urban innovation
Ann Mei Chang, Chief Innovation Officer, Pete for America; Author of Lean Impact; and former Chief Innovation Officer at USAID –
Beth Noveck, Professor in Technology, Culture, and Society, New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering
Carol Dahl, Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation – an organisation that supports invention for economic and social progress
Cassie Robinson, Head of Digital Grant Making, The National Lottery Community Fund – a non-departmental public body responsible for distributing funds raised by the National Lottery for 'good causes'
Charles Hayes, Partner and Executive Managing Director, IDEO Shanghai - a global design company
Christian Bason, Chief Executive, Dansk Design Centre – Denmark’s national centre for design
Danny Buerkli, Programme Director, Centre for Public Impact
David Gann, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at Imperial College Business School
David Li, Executive Director, Shezhen Open Innovation Lab – a space and platform for worldwide makers to communicate and cooperate
Derval Usher, Head of Office, PulseLab – a research institution that combines data science and social research to help make sense of this interconnected, interdependent and complex world
Dorothy Bishop, Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology, University of Oxford
Duncan Turner, Managing Director, HAX Accelerator – a seed accelerator focused on hardware startups based in Shenzhen and San Francisco
Ed Roberts, Honorary Research Fellow, Imperial College London – who focuses on using neuroimaging, brain stimulation and behavioural experiments to investigate brain function in health and disease
Giulio Quaggiotto, Head, Regional Innovation Centre, Asia Pacific, United Nations Development Programme – a programme that works to eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities through the sustainable development of nations, in more than 170 countries and territories
George Walkley, Group Digital and Development Director, Hachette UK – a UK publishing group
Gordon Saul, Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Stanford
Hooman Shayani, Senior Principal AI Scientist, Autodesk – a multinational software services company
Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Marketing, Cambridge Judge Business School
James Parr, Co-Founder and CEO, Trillium – a mission-oriented company that develops digital technology platforms to tackle grand challenges
Jenn Gustetic, Program Executive for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR/STTR), NASA
Juha Leppannen, Chief Executive, Demos Helsinki – an independent Finnish think tank with an interest in developing sustainable and fair post-industrial societies
Julie Cobhill, Senior Global Manager, Unilever – a multinational consumer goods company
Lucy Hobbs, Founder, The Future is ND and freelance Creative Director
Marc Ventresca, Associate Professor of Strategic Management, University of Oxford Said Business School
Nathaniel Manning, Chief Executive Officer, Ushahidi – a Keynan not-for-profit technology company
Neil Lawrence, Chair in Neuro and Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Nicholas Russell, Entrepreneur in Residence, Conception X at University College London, helping Engineering PhD students launch deep tech startups based on their research.
Raul Sanchez Adell, Head of Innovation, Barcelona Activa – a organisation that is responsible for promoting economic development in Barcelona
Shahar Avin, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge
Steve Rader, Deputy Director for the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation at NASA
Tim Brown, Chief Executive Officer and President, IDEO – a global design company
Tosh Juma, Founder, Nairobi Design Institute – a multidisciplinary design institute
William Eggers, Executive Director, Center for Government Insights, Deloitte – a multinational professional services network
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