Manouchehr Shamsrizi, social entrepreneur and policy adviser, "is among the most publicly prominent voices of Germany's younger generation" (Washington Post), "everywhere where the improvement of political conditions still has considerable scope" (re:publica), and "well positioned to assess emerging trends" (Monocle). His background is primarily in political philosophy, holding a master of public policy. 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. Manouchehr is a former Ariane de Rothschild Fellow of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge, 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 and as a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum.