Noubar Afeyan

Dr. Noubar Afeyan is founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, a company that creates bioplatform companies to transform human health and sustainability. An entrepreneur and biochemical engineer, Afeyan holds more than 100 patents and has co-founded more than 100 life science and technology startups during his 37-year career. He is co-founder and chairman of the board of Moderna, the pioneering messenger RNA company. 

Afeyan completed his doctoral work in biochemical engineering at MIT and his undergraduate studies at McGill University. He was a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, a lecturer at Harvard Business School, and he currently serves as a member of the MIT Corporation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

Afeyan is a Trustee of the Afeyan Foundation and a co-founder of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative and several other philanthropic projects.