Jason Rissman

Biography

Jason helps lead IDEO’s Center of Excellence for Systems Change, a new team focused on leveraging the company’s diverse capabilities and networks to drive long-term systemic change and to helping IDEO evolve to be more impactful at a systems level. Since 2013, Jason has served as Managing Director of OpenIDEO, IDEO’s open innovation practice. In this role, he has worked to expand the impact of design thinking on pressing global issues through creating platforms for greater inclusion, collaboration and transparency. OpenIDEO envisions a world transformed by the creative power of people everywhere. Leading OpenIDEO, Jason has spearheaded portfolios of innovation programs covering health, international development, sustainability and education. He has overseen over 60 OpenIDEO programs, partnering with leading foundations, large governments and mission-driven companies.

Prior to his role at IDEO, Jason helped Google.org launch and grow projects that utilized technology for social impact across a broad range of issues, including: civic engagement, response to natural disasters, protection of endangered languages and expansion of Internet access. Before his work with Google.org, Jason helped Google develop its mobile advertising business.

Jason received his MBA from the New York University’s Stern School of Business, and a BA from Cornell where he was named a Harrop and Ruth Freeman Prize Winner for Peace Studies.