Biographie
Lisa Witter is an entrepreneur, award-winning executive, and author, and a frequent public speaker. She is the co-founder and board member of Apolitical, a global learning network for governments, and CEO of the Apolitical Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by Apolitical to advance the revitalisation of democracy by building better policy. The foundation’s flagship project, Apolitical Academy Global, helps prepare a new generation of transformative political leaders through a network of non-partisan political training academies. She is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, co-chairs the Forum’s Council on Agile Governance, and served for six years on the Brain and Behavior Council. A former civil servant, she has extensive experience in gender and behavioural science, and has founded numerous political training academies over the past 25 years. She has served on the boards of many companies and non-profit organisations. Together with Robyn Scott, who co-founded Apolitical alongside her, she received the 2020 Creative Bureaucracy Award.