Geordan Shannon

I am a medical doctor, founder, and global health expert. I innovate at the intersection of health, environment, finance, and technology. Across research, practice, policy and enterprise I focus on the transformation of economic, social and technical systems. I build creative and pragmatic solutions to facilitate linked-up local actions at scale that cut across the biggest issues central to human and planetary health.

 

My work is motivated by a love for people and the planet. I began my journey in the Australian outback grounded in and learning from deep Indigenous cosmology. I've lived and worked side by side with communities in extreme settings around the world - from the Amazon jungle to the Great Lakes of Africa - supporting resourcefulness, innovation, systems change, health, care and peace. 

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I have a portfolio of experience in shaping policy and affecting change - from the local to the global. I currently lead large-scale health policy initiatives supporting human and environmental flourishing with UN partners, national governments, and other key stakeholders. Based on these experiences, I co-founded a number of start-ups at the intersection of health, climate, and web3 including stema.org, Planet:Health, and unexia.org. Through these, I develop and scale web3 and emerging technologies to support how we live, relate, coordinate and regenerate.

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