Bright Simons is the President of mPedigree, a social enterprise working on three continents to transform supply chains for life-touching products such as medicines and agro-inputs using technology and partnerships. mPedigree has secured billions of products from counterfeiting, and protected tens of millions of consumers around the world.
Bright is also an ardent policy activist working at the interface of economic governance and social welfare. In pursuit of these causes, he has served as a member of the External Advisory Board of European biopharma company, UCB, as Vice Chair of APHRC (African Population and Health Research Centre), as a member of the Boards of Salzburg Global and Care International, and on Microsoft Africa’s inaugural advisory council. He also served on successive World Economic Forum Global Agenda and Future Councils, was an inaugural TED Fellow, and has held the Cheng and Mallinckrodt fellowships at Harvard.
He is a Tallberg Elliasson Prize Laureate; a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award from the African Innovation Foundation. He has written for the Harvard Business Review, Quartz magazine, the BBC's Business Daily show, and the Financial Times. In 2023, he was awarded a Bellagio fellowship to apply his series of inventions to the problems of the minerals supply chain, advancing a new “equitable circular economy” protocol for green minerals critical to the energy transition and climate change response.
