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Bright Simons

PresidentmPedigree

Biography

Bright is the President of mPedigree, a social enterprise working on three continents in partnership with governments, Fortune 500 companies, and grassroots organizations to spread innovative, including patent-pending, technologies that secure communities from supply chain fraud. At Koldchain, he led pioneering work at the Harvard Innovation Labs to invent & patent organo-sensors for biomedicals. Besides his own primary work, he is an enthusiastic Advisor of other organisations. He serves on the Supervisory Board of Care International; on the Sustainability Board of UCB, a European biopharma pioneer; the Board of Directors of the Salzburg Global Seminar; and is the Vice Chair of the Africa Population Health Research Center. He previously served on the inaugural Microsoft Africa Advisory Council. As an early Director at IMANI, he has contributed considerably to its recognition as one of Africa's top 5 think tanks. He was on the 2016 Fortune 50 World Greatest Leaders list.

Regional Focus

Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, West and Central Africa