BRIGHT SIMONS
He/Him
Bright is the President of mPedigree, a social enterprise working on three continents with governments, Fortune 500 companies and activists to safeguard human health and food security using technology. A career inventor and innovator, his current projects include patented vaccine quality detection using novel organo-sensors. He is also a Board-level Advisor, with recent appointments to the Microsoft Africa Advisory Council, the Lancet Commission on the Future of Health in Africa, the Center for Global Development's Study Group on Technology, IC Publications, owner of Africa Business, UCB's Sustainability Advisory Board, Care International's Supervisory Board, and the World Economic Forum's Africa Strategy Group. He is Vice Chairman of the Africa Population Health Research Center, a WEF Young Global Leader, TED Fellow, TED Speaker, Aspen Braddock Fellow, and the 2016 CNBC African Innovative Business Leader of the Year. In 2016, Fortune magazine named him on their 50 World Greatest Leaders list, whilst in 2021, the AACSB, a leading global business school network, honoured him as an "influential leader" . He has written and been interviewed prolifically for global media, such as the Economist, Harvard Business Review, the BBC, Africa Report, and the Huffington Post.