Bright Simons

President of MPedigree, Health Technology Innovator & African Food Security Activist

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Bright Simons Biography

Bright Simons is a technology innovator, development activist and social entrepreneur. He is President of the mPedigree Network, a social enterprise working with governments, companies, and organisations to promote innovative technologies in the areas of health and food security, transparency, and governance. His latest work on the application of “smart polymers” to health cold-chain problems has been supported by Harvard Innovation Labs, among others. Prior, he was Director of Research at the IMANI Centre for Policy and Education in Ghana, where he helped steer the organization's award-winning research activities.

Bright is a Member of the World Economic Forum's Network of Global Agenda Councils and Technology Pioneers communities. He is also an Ashoka Fellow, TED Fellow, Salzburg Global Fellow, Tech Museum Laureate and a Brain Trust member of the Evian Group at IMD. In 2010, he was conferred with an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Award by the African Leadership Institute. In 2013, he was named to the Advisory Board of IC Publications, a leading Pan-African and Afro-Diaporan publisher.

As a board-level advisor, Simons’s commitments include the Microsoft Africa Advisory Council, the Lancet Commission on the Future of Health in Africa, the World Economic Forum’s Africa Strategy Group, IMANI Center for Policy and Education, and the Ashoka Globalizer initiative. In 2016, Fortune magazine named him to its World’s 50 Greatest Leaders list.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 04/22/2024.

Bright Simons Videos

  • To help solve global problems, look to developing countries | Bright Simons
  • Bright Simons, President and Founder, mPedigree
    Bright Simons talks the importance of collaboration in achieving the SDGs. His org, mPedigree, fights drug and seed counterfeiting with an ...
  • 2019 Skoll Awards | Bright Simons of mPedigree
    At the 2019 Skoll World Forum, mPedigree's Bright Simons took to the stage to receive the 2019 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

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