Charlie Leadbeater

Charlie is an Executive Director at System Shift,  has for almost 30 years advised governments, foundations, social entrepreneurs and cities on innovative strategies to create public goods. A life fellow of the RSA and a visiting professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Policy, he sat on the board of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation for eight years and is a trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. He’s fascinated by people who lead ambitious social transitions. Charlie was a co-founder of the the System Innovation Initiative. Before that he was an award winning journalist, Industrial Editor and Tokyo Bureau chief of the Financial Times, a graduate of Oxford University.