About Chris Purifoy

I love really hard problems and building strong tribes.  

I've been lucky to work on some incredible projects with so many amazing people.  I'm currently the CEO and Co-founder of Learning Economy, a 501c3 non-profit with a global mission to translate leading edge technologies into transformative learning and economic systems that promote equity, mobility, privacy, and individual agency to radically improve lives throughout the world. Since its announcement at the United Nations General Assembly in 2018, the Foundation has aligned a global community of policy makers, standards committees, research organizations, employers, and developers that are committed to ensuring the next iteration of the world wide web is more equitable and addresses many of the social ills that plague the globe. We recently launched the LearnCard to enable learner sovereignty, mobility and agency and to empower a global developer community.

I’m an entrepreneur, author, and technology architect. I speak and write about creativity, AI, Web3, and the future of education and employment. Over the last decade I have built several startups and led tech collaborations for organizations like the LEGO Foundation, US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, and others. I am a senior editor for the Diplomatic Courier, with bold ideas about the war on democracy, the social media brush fire, and how to solve global sustainable challenges. I also sit on various global policy councils and fellowships and co-founded the Web3 Education Alliance with the World Bank.

I’m also an author of poetry and fiction, and in another timeline I probably spend all of my time creating worlds on paper and film, likely sitting in Paris’s latin quarter just south of Notre Dame. You can read more about my journey as an author here.

"From time to time take a break to stare into your stars, for you are full of wonder."  //  Analog de Leon