Environment & Cleantech

Skilled professionals dedicated to innovative technologies and practices that reduce environmental impact and promote sustainability

Michelle Mannering

Michelle Mannering

I am a highly motivated, curious and compassionate leader with a keen interest in driving entrepreneurial culture and pioneering Melbourne’s esports industry. I have founded several tech companies and, as a result, sits at the forefront of this city’s science, tech, esports and startup scenes.

Everyday I get to create awesome experiences and engage with the vibrant GitHub developer community. I've run many hackathons, and am an accomplished MC, speaker, and facilitator. You'll often catch me at an event or speaking on stage!

In my 'spare' time I'm a streamer, journalist, and always working on something exciting. Right now, I'm working on the next epic venture - Raine Scooters. We've designed and created an electric scooter to put the fun in your daily commute ⚡🛴

I am a highly motivated, curious and compassionate leader with a keen interest in driving entrepreneurial culture and pioneering Melbourne’s esports industry. I have founded several tech companies and, as a result, sits at the forefront of this city’... Show more

Joe Kehoe

Joe Kehoe

Joe brings over 15+ years experience in driving digital transformation across large organizations. He believes organizations can be successful with transformation when they focus on business change, end user experience, actionable insights, and change management. Joe believes strategy is complete when it is executed and measureable against the business case supporting it.

Joe brings over 15+ years experience in driving digital transformation across large organizations. He believes organizations can be successful with transformation when they focus on business change, end user experience, actionable insights, and chang... Show more

Olga Howard

Olga Howard

Olga is a designer focused on innovation and strategy. In her current role she manages the Metadata for Content Discovery program at PBS where she’s moving the needle towards voice discoverability.

Olga is a designer focused on innovation and strategy. In her current role she manages the Metadata for Content Discovery program at PBS where she’s moving the needle towards voice discoverability. Show more

John Ferris

John Ferris

John spent his early career coding for a healthcare tech company in Pittsburgh before a 15 year stint in media. A journalist and editor at the North Belfast News, John also ran Ireland’s most successful independent food website, Forked.
In 2013 John launched a wifi software technology startup, which was used in restaurants, cafés, hotels, stadia and vehicles around the world.
John joined Entrepreneurial Spark in 2015 to help support ambitious startups throughout Ireland. The social enterprise was bought over by NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank in 2018. Since joining the team John has worked to support 7000+ startups across the country. Those businesses have raised £35m+ in investment and created more than 1000 jobs.
Since 2019, John sits as a member of Ulster Bank’s Regional Board and leads on climate and the drive to support a more diverse entrepreneurial ecosystem in Northern Ireland.

John spent his early career coding for a healthcare tech company in Pittsburgh before a 15 year stint in media. A journalist and editor at the North Belfast News, John also ran Ireland’s most successful independent food website, Forked. In 2013 John... Show more

Cédric Michel

Cédric Michel

Ayant commencé, il y a 10 ans comme .Net dévelopuer, passioné par l'informatique depuis mon plus jeune age, je me rend compte que l'organisation et la méthodologie est aussi importante que la technologie. C'est pourquoi dès le début de ma carrière, j'ai eu un felling avec Scrum et les valeurs de l'agilité. Mon objectif maintenant est de transmettre cela!

Ayant commencé, il y a 10 ans comme .Net dévelopuer, passioné par l'informatique depuis mon plus jeune age, je me rend compte que l'organisation et la méthodologie est aussi importante que la technologie. C'est pourquoi dès le début de ma carrière, j... Show more

Romuald Priol

Romuald Priol

Passionné d’écologie, de good-tech, d’éthique et de qualité logicielle, je suis un des représentants du collectif numérique responsable, collectif de GreenIt.fr. Je suis aussi ambassadeur chez thegreencompagnon.com pour promouvoir l’évolution du numérique en le rendant plus "responsable". Lead développeur sur un site à fort trafic, je m'implique beaucoup pour rendre le numérique plus qualitatif: pour le rendre plus « green », plus « performant », plus «sécurisé», plus « qualitatif » et « accessible ».

Passionné d’écologie, de good-tech, d’éthique et de qualité logicielle, je suis un des représentants du collectif numérique responsable, collectif de GreenIt.fr. Je suis aussi ambassadeur chez thegreencompagnon.com pour promouvoir l’évolution du numé... Show more

Nikhil Mudholkar

Nikhil Mudholkar

Nikhil is a Data Engineer at Tier Mobility in their daily new 5 membered Data Engineering team. Nikhil has prior experience of working in the Data Engineering domain while his 2-year stint at Capital One. Nikhil is also fairly active in the algorithmic trading domain and has developed trading bots to perform automated algorithmic trading in the Indian stock markets. Nikhil is passionate about startups and entrepreneurship and likes to associate with this space in any way possible.

Nikhil is a Data Engineer at Tier Mobility in their daily new 5 membered Data Engineering team. Nikhil has prior experience of working in the Data Engineering domain while his 2-year stint at Capital One. Nikhil is also fairly active in the algorithm... Show more

Taiwo Ogunwumi

Taiwo Ogunwumi

Taiwo Ogunwumi (Nigerian) is a current master’s student of Environmental Risk at United Nations University, Bonn Germany. He had previous experience in GIS field surveys and cartography mapping within the humanitarian and disaster management sector. He is passionate about Volunteered Geographic Information/Crowd-sourced mapping for Sustainable Development and Disaster response, which led him to the founding of the Geohazard Risk Mapping Initiative. (www.georiskmap.org)

Taiwo Ogunwumi (Nigerian) is a current master’s student of Environmental Risk at United Nations University, Bonn Germany. He had previous experience in GIS field surveys and cartography mapping within the humanitarian and disaster management sector. ... Show more

massimo fontana

massimo fontana

I started developing software on a Commodore 64.
Web1, Web2, Web3 dev.
Artist, puzzle maker, community creator.
With a love for design and architecture.
And a mission for language and its evolution.
Creator of the Cypherparty.
Proud Etherean.

I started developing software on a Commodore 64. Web1, Web2, Web3 dev. Artist, puzzle maker, community creator. With a love for design and architecture. And a mission for language and its evolution. Creator of the Cypherparty. Proud Etherean. Show more

Jason Schadt

Jason Schadt

Jason “Vandal” Schadt is a Metaverse entrepreneur, investor, creator and decentralized community leader with vast experience working at the intersection of Web3 technologies, art and culture in global markets. To date, Vandal has sold over 100 NFTs (approx. 40 eth in total primary sale value), holds over $250K in metaverse real estate across leading Metaverses The Sandbox, Cryptovoxels and Somnium Space and has built, produced and curated 50+ events in the Metaverse.

Vandal started his career as a Hip Hop artist in Toronto and later Malaysia where he was a pioneer in helping build the local Hip Hop scene and performed throughout Asia, including Japan, Mongolia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, Taiwan and Indonesia. Along with Hip Hop's godfather DJ Kool Herc, Vandal has also performed alongside some of the world’s most famous musicians including Grammy Award winning band, The Roots, Blackalicious, The Herbaliser, DJ Jazzy Jeff and more. He also operated his own music and entertainment companies across Canada and Southeast Asia, including Movemint, a Malaysian entertainment company, which would eventually evolve into a Web3 music company under Vandal’s direction.

Being a part of the music industry in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, Vandal faced the digitization and commodification of music head on. Looking for a solution to this problem, he discovered the Web3 movement. Vandal bought his first Cryptokitty ($300M+ in NFT transaction volume to date) on December 10th 2017 and from there committed his career to exploring how Web3 can create new virtual ecosystems and economies around artists as the next evolution of entertainment.

Since 2017 Vandal has launched several NFT-based projects including Hip Hop the Blockchain an onboarding vehicle that aggregated Blockchain platforms for artists, NFTwrapper together with Bittrees that used Vault technology and DeFi for an Audio NFT use-case and DAOrecords, a Web3 Audio NFT record label and Metaverse events company, where he worked with Ren Stern and Frank Renaissance on their virtual fashion release. He also served on the Malaysian Blockchain Association from 2018-2020.

Most recently Vandal has been continued his community building through the NEAR x Music guild and DAO, with over 400 artists and $80K in funding distributed across community projects including NFTs and Metaverse events within the NEAR Protocol ecosystem, and is experimenting with ‘self-governance’ activities through his own DAO - VanDAO.

Through his work in the Metaverse, Vandal has established himself as a pioneer and prominent figure being featured as a speaker at GeckoCon 2021, Crypto Art Week Asia 2021, NFT Summit 2021, NEARCon Alpha 2021 and more. He also was a featured performer at the first-ever music festival in Decentraland, Metaverse Music Festival in 2021.

Jason “Vandal” Schadt is a Metaverse entrepreneur, investor, creator and decentralized community leader with vast experience working at the intersection of Web3 technologies, art and culture in global markets. To date, Vandal has sold over 100 NFTs (... Show more

Nataly Goncharova

Nataly Goncharova

I am a Full Stack Developer.
I am 35 years old.
I live in Israel, originally I am from Ukraine.

Since January 2021 I work on my product ecohub.

Ecohub is the child of my two passions: ecology and web development.

Since 2017 I worked in project and product companies as a Web Developer.

I worked with MongoDB and Keystone SQL.

I have a master's degree in environmental engineering.
I studied renewable energy at the National Technical University of Ukraine.

I speak English fluently.

I am a Full Stack Developer. I am 35 years old. I live in Israel, originally I am from Ukraine. Since January 2021 I work on my product ecohub. Ecohub is the child of my two passions: ecology and web development. Since 2017 I worked in ... Show more

Julien Genestoux

Julien Genestoux

I created Jobetudiant, my first company, while still in school. After nearly 20 years, Jobetudiant is still one of the largest job board for students in France. I was nominated by BusinessWeek as one of Europe’s Best Entrepreneur Below 25 in November 2006.

In 2009, I founded Superfeedr which became one of the leading real-time web API. Superfeedr received funding from Mark Cuban and Betaworks and became profitable less than a year later. Superfeedr was later acquired by Medium. At Medium, I lead the company’s SEO effort and quadrupled the share of traffic Medium receives from search. I also successfuly implemented syndication protocols such as Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages and Facebook’s Intant Articles.

I am a strong open web advocate. I co-authored the W3C WebSub protocol and spoke at numerous international conferences and events such as Google IO, Le Web, Blend WebMix, JSConf EU. I also co-organized the Realtime Conf in the US and Europe.

I invested in some of my friends’ startups and projects as well as advise a few companies who are trying to make the web a better place.

I was born in France in 1982 and I currently live in Brooklyn, NY with my wife and three young kids, Hannah, Basile and Giselle.

I created Jobetudiant, my first company, while still in school. After nearly 20 years, Jobetudiant is still one of the largest job board for students in France. I was nominated by BusinessWeek as one of Europe’s Best Entrepreneur Below 25 in November... Show more

Saurav Gautam

Saurav Gautam

Faculty Member at Tribhuvan University Nepal, YouthMappers Regional Ambassador 2019-2021, Geomatics Engineer, Mapper

Faculty Member at Tribhuvan University Nepal, YouthMappers Regional Ambassador 2019-2021, Geomatics Engineer, Mapper Show more

Christian TUMUINIMO Mambote

Christian TUMUINIMO Mambote

Christian TUMUINIMO MAMBOTE is an engineer in mechanical engineering. he's born in the city of kisantu, in the DR Congo, in 1987. Passionate about scientific research and territorial development, since 2021, he is conducting doctoral research on architectural atmospheres in colonial houses.
Currently he's a teacher at Faculty of Architecture of Kongo University. He is also passionate about geographic information systems, renewable energy and he is member of openstreetmap DR congo.

Christian TUMUINIMO MAMBOTE is an engineer in mechanical engineering. he's born in the city of kisantu, in the DR Congo, in 1987. Passionate about scientific research and territorial development, since 2021, he is conducting doctoral research on arch... Show more

Insaf Nori

Insaf Nori

My name is Insaf NORI, and I'm the Community Manager for the Decred Group in the MENA region. Over the last four years, I've had the opportunity to manage community relations for a bitcoin blockchain organization while maintaining a fast-paced, high-performance work environment. At the same time, I've had the chance to plan and participate in various new technology and Blockchain-related events. I've also translated several articles about Blockchain Technology into Arabic to be widely disseminated around the world. At ENSA Khouribga, I'm also working on my Ph.D. in renewable energy.

My name is Insaf NORI, and I'm the Community Manager for the Decred Group in the MENA region. Over the last four years, I've had the opportunity to manage community relations for a bitcoin blockchain organization while maintaining a fast-paced, high-... Show more

David Naumann

David Naumann

Dave Naumann, MBA, is a senior project manager who specializes in financial and operational management consulting for water, wastewater, and storm water systems. For 30 years, Dave has helped utilities make sound business decisions regarding the use of their financial resources. His experience has included financial planning, cost of service, and rate design; system development charges; utility valuation; depreciation analysis; economic modeling; feasibility of plant expansion; feasibility of organizational or governance change, and related transition planning; and process improvement. Dave frequently collaborates with operations, engineering, customer care, administrative and other client departments to develop sound plans and recommendations.

Dave has facilitated large and small workshops and presented study results effectively to decision makers and stakeholders.

Dave Naumann, MBA, is a senior project manager who specializes in financial and operational management consulting for water, wastewater, and storm water systems. For 30 years, Dave has helped utilities make sound business decisions regarding the use ... Show more

Ibrahim Lukman

Ibrahim Lukman

IBRAHIM LUKMAN is the Founder of Deeptech Africa, a community focused on the exploration of Immersive / Deep Technologies (AR/VR, IOT, AI/ML, Blockchain) and has gained presence in over 4 countries in Africa with the aim of building African Nations that utilizes indigenous technologies.

Banking on his knowledge in technology and aspirations to ensuring the development and utilization of Deep Technologies in Nigeria and beyond. He has been over the years focusing on mentoring and upskilling developers to building innovative technologies.

He is a curator at Hello-tomorrow (The finest and biggest deeptech startup competition with headquater in France) and also the CEO of DrCloud, a Non-governmental health technology Startup committed to improving people’s health status and offering medical emergency responses using modern health technologies.

His biggest aspiration is setting his indigenous city (Ibadan) on the global map.

IBRAHIM LUKMAN is the Founder of Deeptech Africa, a community focused on the exploration of Immersive / Deep Technologies (AR/VR, IOT, AI/ML, Blockchain) and has gained presence in over 4 countries in Africa with the aim of building African Nations t... Show more

Dennis Ameling

Dennis Ameling

* Software/Business Process Consultant
* PHP/TypeScript developer
* Open Source advocate
* Tech entrepreneur
* Frontend Engineer @ Leap Energy

* Software/Business Process Consultant * PHP/TypeScript developer * Open Source advocate * Tech entrepreneur * Frontend Engineer @ Leap Energy Show more

APJMJ Sheik dawood

APJMJ Sheik dawood

APJMJ Sheik Dawood is having 20 Years of Experience in Information Technology. Presently working as Senior Technical Manager in Kryptos Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Chennai.

APJMJ Sheik Dawood is currently involved in Architecting Cloud Based Solutions and AI Solutions for Enterprise Customers.
APJMJ Sheik Dawood Worked as a Software Engineer in Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (Indian Institute of Science) and had a rich experience in conceiving, planning, developing world-class software packages as part of geographically distributed international team of engineers.
Sheik was involved in Prestigious Million Books Project. Where his contribution for the project recognized worldwide. Sheik had good abroad experience in Carnegie Mellon University during summer 2003, 2004 worked as Research Assistant in Natural Language Technologies.
In the year 2013, Sheik was invited by Farmers Insurance, USA to architect Usage Based Insurance mobile application, he played major role architecting the Insurance Mobile Application and bringing digital innovation by providing insurance premium rates using user behavior observed from Mobile Application.
Sheik was responsible for initiating Enterprise Mobile Eco System in Tata Motors. Where He was responsible for introducing the Enterprise Mobile Application Development Team. This Digital Initiative provided valuable insights to leadership team to manage better vehicle sales and delivery.
He holds MTech Computer Science from SASTRA University.
APJMJ Sheik Dawood is Co-Founder of APJ Abdul Kalam International Foundation.
Sheik (Mission Director) was responsible for launching 100 Femto sati light using Balloon. Where 1800 students Participated and around 1000 underprivileged students took part this event. He Played major role integrating Government of India, Education Institutions, Schools, Private Organization to work together for common goal. Honorable Prime Minister of India Shree Narandra Modi appreciated this event.
Sheik was invited to deliver lecture about Dr Kalam vision 2020 about nation Development in Delhi Assembly in the year 2018.
Last year during pandemic along with His Holiness Dalai lama sheik lead the conference on "Liveable Planet Earth–Working Together for a Peaceful World". Where around 15 countries students participated.
Sheik lead the AI Conference with Prof Raj Ready (Carnegie University, Pittsburgh) and Mr.Naraya Moorthy (Infosys Founder) on the topic of “AI for India”
Sheik lead the green rally "Green India" along with Honorable Vice President of India Shree Venkaiyanaidu Ji.
Sheik regularly participates conferences / workshops on Green Energy. In year 2020, Sheik lead the Green Products conference along with Junjun Wala, others.
Sheik Along with Governor of Tamilnadu (Panvarilal Prohit) launched 1 crore tree plantation drive across tamilnadu.
Sheik had interacted with 25000 (Twenty-Five Thousand Students) and delivered lectures on transformational leadership mentored by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

APJMJ Sheik Dawood is having 20 Years of Experience in Information Technology. Presently working as Senior Technical Manager in Kryptos Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Chennai. APJMJ Sheik Dawood is currently involved in Architecting Cloud Based Solutions ... Show more

Christian Borovac

Christian Borovac

Having co-founded DiscoverEI, an environmental intelligence company, I have a passion for helping clients visualise the complex environmental problems that we are working to solve.

I achieve this by combining data analytics with the development of dashboards, motion graphics and animations to really bring environmental data to life.

Having co-founded DiscoverEI, an environmental intelligence company, I have a passion for helping clients visualise the complex environmental problems that we are working to solve. I achieve this by combining data analytics with the development o... Show more

Adolfo Benedetti

Adolfo Benedetti

Passionate software engineer about the open source, with 15+ years of experience as a Java and full-stack developer for different industries and organizations both in Colombia and the Netherlands.

Passionate software engineer about the open source, with 15+ years of experience as a Java and full-stack developer for different industries and organizations both in Colombia and the Netherlands. Show more

Pia Stider

Pia Stider

Passionate about sustainable development via digital ways of working

Passionate about sustainable development via digital ways of working Show more

Yaya Lorenz

Yaya Lorenz

My passion for innovation, disruption, and causes that matter has led me to launch over 40+ brands ranging from regenerative sustainable foodware that restores the oceans to inclusive and accessible health care with at-home diagnostics. At our agency Shadow Creative Studios, we have helped startups and entrepreneurs raise over $120M through strategic branding, immersive design experiences, and powerful No Code platforms.

My passion for innovation, disruption, and causes that matter has led me to launch over 40+ brands ranging from regenerative sustainable foodware that restores the oceans to inclusive and accessible health care with at-home diagnostics. At our agency... Show more

Sayonsom Chanda

Sayonsom Chanda

Sayonsom Chanda is the Founder and CEO of Sync Energy AI, a New York-based company that builds no-code platforms for critical infrastructure industry (such as electric utilities) and provides resilience planning services. Sayonsom holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He previously worked as a federal government contractor and a senior data scientist at National Grid. He has authored 19 technical articles in leading peer-reviewed journals and holds two US patents related to climate-change.

Sayonsom Chanda is the Founder and CEO of Sync Energy AI, a New York-based company that builds no-code platforms for critical infrastructure industry (such as electric utilities) and provides resilience planning services. Sayonsom holds a Ph.D. in ... Show more

Janet CHAPMAN

Janet CHAPMAN

Janet is chair of Tanzania Development Trust, a volunteer run UK registered charity that has been supporting grassroots organisations in rural Tanzania for 45 years. In 2015 she founded Crowd2Map which has since recruited over 15,000 online volunteers to map rural Tanzania into OpenStreetMap, for better navigation, community development and to help protect girls from FGM.

Janet is chair of Tanzania Development Trust, a volunteer run UK registered charity that has been supporting grassroots organisations in rural Tanzania for 45 years. In 2015 she founded Crowd2Map which has since recruited over 15,000 online volunteer... Show more

Sarvesh Goel

Sarvesh Goel

Enterprise Architect with over 20 years of experience mainly with Microsoft tool stack. Currently employed with Shell & managing Architecture of their Digital Platforms. Enjoy sharing knowledge, connecting with people, and making an impact !!!

Enterprise Architect with over 20 years of experience mainly with Microsoft tool stack. Currently employed with Shell & managing Architecture of their Digital Platforms. Enjoy sharing knowledge, connecting with people, and making an impact !!! Show more

Yong Wang

Yong Wang

3 Years Data Analysis & Data Engineering Experience + 18 Y of Project & Operation Experience.

3 Years Data Analysis & Data Engineering Experience + 18 Y of Project & Operation Experience. Show more

Chiara Chiesa

Chiara Chiesa

Chiara Chiesa is an International PR and
Space Technology Commercialization Transfer advisor.

She helps to infuse space technology into the commercial sector, connecting people, startups, companies and institutions within the aerospace and NewSpace domain.

Public relations expert, her background includes foreign literatures studies, communication, marketing and business.

NASA Space Apps Challenge Brescia Lead and organizer since 2018,
Chiara profoundly believes in bonds amid people for the relentless pursuit of a sustainable planet for our species.

She is mentor and role model for Space4Women Network, a program by UNOOSA (United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs) to inspire girls and women to pursue STEM and space careers.

President and co-founder of INTERSTELLARS and fond of new technologies, she is sales advisor for Graphene-xt and PR and advisor for companies and startups.

Chiara is one of the 1000 "Unstoppable women” that are changing Italy through innovation, list by StartupItalia.

Tedx Brescia Speaker 2020, Chiara is included in the international "Million STEM"list.

She is known as a game changer on her way to face new challenges by anticipating solutions to complexities: a quantum of energy to fuel every possible future.

Brescia, Lombardy, Italy

Chiara Chiesa is an International PR and Space Technology Commercialization Transfer advisor. She helps to infuse space technology into the commercial sector, connecting people, startups, companies and institutions within the aerospace and NewSpa... Show more

Gillian Galford

Gillian Galford

Dr. Gillian L. Galford directs the Certificate and UVM’s Geospatial Technologies program. She teaches in UVM’s Environmental Science Program/Rubenstein School of Environment and is a Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment. Her research focuses on land-cover and land-use change in the tropics and its impacts, particularly on greenhouse gas emissions and the water cycle. She works across scales, from plot level studies on farms to regional analyses through remote sensing and ecosystems modeling. Strong partnerships and collaborations are a hallmark of Gillian’s work. Her colleagues represent universities in the USA, Brazil and Cuba, NGOs, international research organizations and government institutions. Gillian maintains active research projects funded by NASA, NSF, USDA and private foundations.

Gillian holds a B.A. in Earth & Planetary Sciences with a double major in Environmental Studies (social science track) from Washington University in St. Louis. She holds a Ph.D. from Brown University where she studied ecosystems ecology and remote sensing through the Brown-MBL Joint Program with a focus on remote sensing and ecosystems ecology through the Brown-MBL Joint Program in Environmental Science and Biology. Previously, Gillian was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Earth Institute of Columbia University and the Woods Hole Research Center.

Dr. Gillian L. Galford directs the Certificate and UVM’s Geospatial Technologies program. She teaches in UVM’s Environmental Science Program/Rubenstein School of Environment and is a Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment. Her research focuses ... Show more

Nyasha Duri

Nyasha Duri

Nyasha Duri works for civic technology social enterprise mySociety in the transparency team: helping empower people through the world’s largest open source freedom of information database relied upon by millions worldwide. Additionally, she is developing curriculums and delivering classes for the Black Codher coding bootcamp funded by the West Midlands Authority. Most recently, she's been headhunted for Google, taken on a contract to work on the UK's first largest nationwide database of black network organisations, and performed her poetry for the Dr Maya Angelou inspired The Caged Bird Sings.

Among other roles, she has worked for the British government as well as a Swedish municipality via the EU, led a project for Switzerland based diplomacy & peacebuilding nonprofit the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, and assisted an Australian computer science education company with 500,000+ students. At the California Clean Energy (VC) Fund, using her experience working in startups, she contributed to gender equality & equity as CSR for its Asia networks, the LG Chem Battery Challenge, and Global Climate Action Summit.

She also serves as Chair of the Board at do-tank the Policy Centre for African Peoples, takes part in Chatham House advisory working groups, and supports the core team behind the crowdsourced COVID-19 resource coronavirustechhandbook.com. Nyasha studied MA Quantitative Politics, Social & Public Policy, Economics and Environmental Science alongside Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese with Software Engineering, then a Health Sciences MSc International Humanitarian Affairs with Human Rights Law plus sustainable development.

Earlier this summer, she received a STEM scholarship for the University of Cambridge. In addition to her native Shona as a Zimbabwean born Brit, she has learnt Zulu, French, German, Spanish, and Swedish too. Thanks to a love for the arts as well, she has collaborated with the National Gallery, House of Illustration, Lyrix Organix, Battersea Arts, ERIC Festival, Academy of Music & Sound, Television for the Environment, YOUYOU Mentoring, The Library and Keats House.

Her multifaceted advocacy, activism, and ambassadorship encompasses UNICEF, Theirworld (and its Global Business Coalition for Education), Youth Employment UK, Stemettes, Beyond Suffrage, and FORWARD - the Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development. She has also conducted research with ClearView Research, Bite the Ballot, and You Press - for the Mayor of London as well as UCL, Peking University in China, University of Gothenburg, and the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland.

A keen social entrepreneur, her first venture won investment plus other prizes from Nominet Trust and the Royal Household via the Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award (iDEA) in 2015, and she was invited to participate in Founders Forum for Good. Nyasha's solo and joint endeavours were covered by The Guardian, The Independent, BBC, Daily Mirror, HuffPost, Dazed, London Live, Cyber Salon, Silicon Republic, Computer Business Review, The Irish Times, New Zimbabwe, The Herald, Ham&High, Women Shift Digital, and Brazil's Globo Media.

Following representing the UK at the 2019 G(irls)20 Summit in Japan and joining the Women’s Forum for the Economy & Society delegation, she founded another social impact initiative: yourcareer.site . Its mission is to provide full suite professional development support with foresight for the 4th and 5th Industrial Revolutions.

Previous efforts have reached thousands alongside leading to recognition through: multiple UN organs the World Bank, WWF, EU, ITC (WTO/UNCTAD), International Gender Champions, US State Department, Houses of Parliament, the Scottish Government, Unilever, Google, HP Enterprise, Accenture, Salesforce Foundation, Channel 4's 4Talent, The Economist, Foundervine, Freeformers, YMCA, Women in Science & Engineering, Women Who Code, Code First Girls, the Jo Cox Foundation, and Coalition for Racial Equality & Rights.

Nyasha Duri works for civic technology social enterprise mySociety in the transparency team: helping empower people through the world’s largest open source freedom of information database relied upon by millions worldwide. Additionally, she is develo... Show more

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