Rohan Silva

Chair

Founders Factory Australia

Rohan Silva is chair of Founders Factory Australia, backing climate-tech and nature-tech startups globally. Based in Fremantle, Australia, Silva was previously senior policy advisor to UK Prime Minister David Cameron, spearheading key innovation policies, including Entrepreneur Visas and the Open Data agenda. He founded London’s Tech City and helped launch the UK’s Life Sciences and Genomics strategies. After, he became a research affiliate at MIT, where he founded Second Home, a socially driven innovation hub. As well as being a regular columnist and broadcaster, Silva is a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.