Bio

Soushiant is a social scientist and tech entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Swae, a platform for crowdsourcing innovation and making inclusive decisions, powered by artificial intelligence. His career spans the fields of policy making, management consulting, and entrepreneurship, with a focus on businesses creating positive social and environmental impact. Prior to Swae, Soushiant was the Head of Strategy and Operations for the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at The University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and he later founded Tribeca Impact Partners, an innovation and sustainability advisory firm helping organizations understand disruptions and build the capacity to innovate. Through his work on Swae, he has become a leading thinker in the fields of governance, collective intelligence and decentralized decision-making. In 2018, his work gained international recognition, winning him the 2018 New Shape Prize, a global competition between 14,000 applicants designed by Sweden’s Global Challenges Foundation to find unique and innovative solutions to fundamentally upgrade democracy and improve global governance. He was awarded a $600K USD grant for his winning solution. Swae.io was born out of the results of this competition. Soushiant earned his BA (Political Science & International Relations) from the University of British Columbia, a Diplôme in International Affairs from Sciences-po Paris, an MPP (Public Policy & Economics) from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and a graduate degree in Exponential Technologies from Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program as a Google Scholar. He was awarded a full scholarship by the UK's Foreign Office and Chevening Scholarship program as one of four Canadians for his Masters degree.