Simon Sylvester-Chaudhuri

Simon has spent over a decade at the intersection of climate, innovation, and cities, creating and leading initiatives that have generated billions of dollars in economic impact. He helped design and launch the first urban tech incubator in the U.S. with NYU Tandon and the NYCEDC, co-produces the Urban Tech Summit at Cornell Tech and was a Strategic Advisor for the U.S. Department of Commerce and International Trade during the Obama Administration.

In 2017, Simon founded CIV:LAB, a nonprofit developing and funding place-based innovation programs in New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Simon is a Founding Fellow at the UCL Centre for Sustainable Business and lectures on cities, entrepreneurship, and innovation at University College London, Imperial College Business School, and NYU's Center for Global Affairs where he was the Kissane Energy Fellow during his Masters Degree. He serves on several boards including world renowned architecture firm, Terreform One, where he serves as the Chair. Simon's work focuses on building collaborative solutions to society’s greatest challenges to create triple-bottom-line impact.