Robyn Scott is an entrepreneur and author. She is co-founder and CEO of Apolitical, a global learning platform for government. She previously co-founded OneLeap, an executive education company, and several Southern African social enterprises teaching coding and other income generation skills to vulnerable women, youth, and prisoners.
Her first book, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle, is an acclaimed memoir about growing up in Botswana during the AIDS epidemic. Robyn is an ambassador for the Access to Medicines Index and on the advisory board of the Responsible Mining Index. She has a BSc in Bioinformatics from Auckland University and an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from Cambridge University, where she was a Gates Scholar. She has been named one of WIRED’s 50 People About to Change the World and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Her work and writing have been featured in the Financial Times, the BBC, Forbes, WIRED, and Fast Company. She is frequent speaker, including on the BBC, at Davos, and for TEDx. She is an investor in and advisor to a number of mission-driven technology startups. She grew up in Botswana and New Zealand, where she was homeschooled. She lives in London.
