Guilherme Lichand

Guilherme is an Assistant Professor of Education at Stanford, co-Director at the Stanford Lemann Center for Entrepreneurship and Educational Innovation in Brazil, and a faculty affiliate at the Stanford King Center for Global Development and the Stanford Center on Early Childhood. He holds a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University. Previously, he was the UNICEF professor of Economics and Child Wellbeing and Development at the University of Zurich. Guilherme was recognized by the Schwab Foundation and Folha de São Paulo as Brazil’s top-10 social entrepreneur (post-pandemic legacy), in 2020, and by MIT Technology Review as Brazil’s top social innovator among under-35 entrepreneurs, in 2014. He is also an expert in social innovation at the World Economic Forum Expert Network.