Manouchehr Shamsrizi
Founder
RetroBrain R&D
RetroBrain R&D
Manouchehr Shamsrizi is the founder of the social startup RetroBrain R&D and has been described by the Washington Post as “among the most publicly prominent voices of Germany’s younger generation,” by re:publica as someone who is “always present where political conditions still have plenty of room for improvement,” and by Monocle Magazine as “well positioned to assess emerging trends.”
He conducts research at Humboldt University, where he co-founded gamelab.berlin, and is also a Fellow of the German Council on Foreign Relations. He lectures on the societal impact of emerging technologies at Leuphana University Lüneburg and, in a unique twist, teaches the “Metaphysics of Metal” at the Wacken Metal Academy.
Shamsrizi has held fellowships at Yale University (Global Justice Fellow) and the University of Cambridge (Ariane de Rothschild Fellow), and was named one of Capital magazine’s “40 under 40 – Young Elite.” He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum, and a participant in the Next Generation forum of the Stifterverband for German Science.
He contributes to various think tanks focused on justice and the digital transformation, and sits on advisory boards including the Museum am Rothenbaum – Cultures and Arts of the World, BIOTOPIA Natural History Museum of Bavaria, and the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Values – a collaboration he co-initiated between Leuphana University and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. He is also involved with Common Purpose Germany and chairs the advisory board of the Malteser Campus St. Maximilian Kolbe.
Shamsrizi has spoken at the Bellevue Forum hosted by Federal President Joachim Gauck, participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Summit hosted by US President Barack Obama in Silicon Valley, and was an invited delegate at The Economy of Francesco – the Vatican’s equivalent of Davos, initiated by Pope Francis.
He conducts research at Humboldt University, where he co-founded gamelab.berlin, and is also a Fellow of the German Council on Foreign Relations. He lectures on the societal impact of emerging technologies at Leuphana University Lüneburg and, in a unique twist, teaches the “Metaphysics of Metal” at the Wacken Metal Academy.
Shamsrizi has held fellowships at Yale University (Global Justice Fellow) and the University of Cambridge (Ariane de Rothschild Fellow), and was named one of Capital magazine’s “40 under 40 – Young Elite.” He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum, and a participant in the Next Generation forum of the Stifterverband for German Science.
He contributes to various think tanks focused on justice and the digital transformation, and sits on advisory boards including the Museum am Rothenbaum – Cultures and Arts of the World, BIOTOPIA Natural History Museum of Bavaria, and the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Values – a collaboration he co-initiated between Leuphana University and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. He is also involved with Common Purpose Germany and chairs the advisory board of the Malteser Campus St. Maximilian Kolbe.
Shamsrizi has spoken at the Bellevue Forum hosted by Federal President Joachim Gauck, participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Summit hosted by US President Barack Obama in Silicon Valley, and was an invited delegate at The Economy of Francesco – the Vatican’s equivalent of Davos, initiated by Pope Francis.