Nick Stanhope

Nick Stanhope is a founder, designer and strategist who works with activists, social entrepreneurs and community organisations that are challenging the way the system works and pushing for change. 

Nick worked as Founder and CEO of UK-based design studio Shift for ten years, building start-ups such as BfB Labs, Historypin and Box Chicken to help combat issues like mental illness, social isolation and child obesity; supporting the development of new fields practice through work such as the Relationships Project and Catalyst; and forming long-term collaborations with partners like Wellcome Trust, Google and Stanford University to generate open research, design new products and services and build stronger ecosystems. 

After graduating from Oxford University in 2003, Nick started work as a campaigner and community and youth worker. He spent time with Anti-Slavery International in south and east Africa, children’s disability charity Kids and supporting youth social action in South London, before running the global campaign movement We Are What We Do from 2009.