Manouchehr Shamsrizi

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). He is a co-founder of gamelab.berlin at the Humboldt University zu Berlin’s Cluster of Excellence and a co-founder of the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Values at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, a collaboration with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus which he has initiated. As an “innovative visionary” (TEDx), he received the opportunity to work at the intersection of academia, digital entrepreneurship, and policy i.a. as an Ariane de Rothschild Fellow of Innovative Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge, a Global Justice Fellow at Yale University, a Fellow of the German Council on Foreign Relations, and was honoured as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Leader of Tomorrow of the University of St. Gallen, and a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum. While having been primarily educated in political philosophy and holding a Master of Public Policy, the longlasting impact of his time with JA Germany lead “Manou” to become the founder and CEO of social business / digital health startup RetroBrain R&D, which is involved in researching and developing novel serious gaming approaches to solve challenges in medical care and therapy, is regarded as “a benchmark in the therapeutic gamification industry” (LIFT Basel) and became the publisher of one of the world’s first video games classified as a medical device. In light of this, Shamsrizi became one of 100 handpicked European Founders invited to President Obama’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University and was selected as one of the “Top 40 under 40 entrepreneurs” by business magazine CAPITAL. He is a lecturer on „technology of the future and its impact on society“ at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg and on “Metaphysics of Metal” at the Wacken Open Air’s Metal Academy, a Member of the Award Jury of the “Deutscher Computerspielpreis” of Germany’s State Minister for Digitization and of the Award Jury of Körber Foundation’s ZUGABE-Price, an advisory board member of Humboldt Innovations’s quantum technology consultancy ”the quantum chapter”, and the Chairman of the Advisory Board of a joint project of the German branch of the Sovereign Order of Malta and Germany’s Federal Ministry of Building. He has been one of Germany’s youngest Supervisory Board members, and is both proud and pleased to serve on the Rotarian Metalhead Fellowship’s board of directors. 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. He was a speaker at the Bellevue Forum of German President Joachim Gauck and at the Leopoldina, Germany’s National Academy of Sciences, and was awarded The Germany Scholarship by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Schering Foundation.