Rikin Gandhi is Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Green. He began his career at Oracle, where he received patents for linguistic search algorithms that he helped develop. Later he joined Microsoft Research India’s Technology for Emerging Markets team, where he researched ways to amplify the effectiveness of agricultural development globally. He has published a number of articles and books, including co-authoring Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation, which constitutes the most authoritative study on the future of local and global agri-food systems. In addition, he has been honored as a TED Fellow, and Ashoka Fellow, and won numerous awards from MIT Technology Review TR35 and the Stockholm Challenge. He holds a Master's degree in aeronautical and astronautical space engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.