Manouchehr Shamsrizi, M.P.P. FRSA — Co-Founder
Manouchehr Shamsrizi „is among the most publicly prominent voices of Germany’s younger generation“ (Washington Post) and "everywhere where the improvement of political conditions still has considerable scope" (re:publica). Former Ariane de Rothschild Fellow of Innovative Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge, Global Justice Fellow at Yale University, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum, Leader of Tomorrow of St. Gallen. He is Co-Founder of Hamburg-based social business / digital health startup RetroBrain R&D („a benchmark in the therapeutic gamification industry“ (LIFT Basel)), Co-Founder of Blockchain-NGO Kryptos, and Co-Founder of gamelab.berlin, which is part of Humboldt Universität’s Cluster of Excellence in Berlin. „Manou“ was one of 100 handpicked European Founders invited to President Obama’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University and one of 2017’s „Top 40 under 40 entrepreneurs“ of business magazine CAPITAL. He is a lecturer on „future-oriented technology (Blockchain, AI, VR, ...) and its impact on society“ at Leuphana University Lüneburg and faculty of the "Digital Transformation Masterclass" at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. Shamsrizi is a member of various think tanks on issues of digitisation and justice, including the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, the ZEIT Foundation, and the Grameen Creative Lab of Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Muhammad Yunus. He was a speaker at the Bellevue Forum of German President Joachim Gauck and was awarded The Germany Scholarship by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and Schering Foundation. As the Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Inclusify AG, he has been one of Germany's youngest Supervisory Board members since 2018. As a Metalhead and Past-President of a Rotaract Club he co-founded and is a Board Member of the Rotarian Metalhead Fellowship, which he honestly never thought would ever come into being.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in social entrepreneurship and digital health innovation.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Experience: 15 yrs 5 mos
Work Experience
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V. | DGAP
Associate Fellow at the Center for Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, and Technology (3 yrs 3 mos)
Fellow @ DGAPs Impact & Innovation Lab, doing research on Gaming for/in foreign and security policy (2 yrs 6 mos)
WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Lecturer "Creating Social Value" (3 yrs 3 mos)
Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) Germany
"Gaming-Spezialist des Auswärtigen Amtes" (6 mos)
Author of a commissioned study on the potential of Gaming/eSports for Public Diplomacy (7 yrs 8 mos)
BIOTOPIA - Naturkundemuseum Bayern
Member of the Kuratorium (5 yrs 2 mos)
BDI - Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V.
Member of the Neustart-Taskforce | working on a sustainable, resilient, digital Post-COVID19-Economy (6 yrs 1 mo)
Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt (former Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg)
Member of the Board of Trustees (Kuratorium) (6 yrs 10 mos)
German Council of Shopping Centers
Beirat der REBOOT-KONFERENZ (7 yrs 2 mos)
Schering Stiftung
Advisor (7 yrs 2 mos)
Bundeskanzleramt
Member of the Award Jury of "Deutscher Computerspielpreis" of the State Minister for Digitization (7 yrs 4 mos)
Rotary International
Founding Board Member "Rotarian Metalhead Fellowship" (7 yrs 5 mos)
Stifterverband
Member of the "Next Generation" (7 yrs 7 mos)
Körber-Stiftung
Member of the Award Jury of "ZUGABE-Preis für soziale Gründer*innen 60plus" (7 yrs 9 mos)
Malteser
Chairman of the Advisory Board of www.maltesercampus-wilhelmsburg.de (8 yrs 1 mo)
DIHK
Member of the Committee of Experts on the health economy (8 yrs 1 mo)
Novartis
Member of the Award Jury of "Digitaler Gesundheitspreis" (8 yrs 5 mos)
World Economic Forum
Global Shaper (12 yrs 3 mos)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Co-Founder "gamelab.berlin" (part of the Cluster of Excellence "Image Knowledge Gestaltung") (12 yrs 5 mos)
RetroBrain R&D GmbH
Co-Founder; former CEO, now Member of the Shareholders Advisory Committee (13 yrs 5 mos)
Sandbox Network
Global Ambassador (15 yrs 5 mos)
Education
Ariane de Rothschild Fellow of Cross-Cultural Leadership and Innovative Entrepreneurship at University of Cambridge
Executive Education "Excellence Program for Supervisory Board Members" at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Bachelor at Zeppelin University
Global Justice Fellow at Yale University