RadicalFutures | Meet Jonathan Ledgard, Director of Rossums and author of Submergence, a New York Times book of the year

Jonathan Ledgard is Director of Rossums, a new studio that seeks to identify technology opportunities for poorer communities. He was Director of the Future Africa Initiative at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL) until 2016. Since 2012, he has led a consortium of leading roboticists, architects, and logisticians that seeks to build the first Droneport in the world in Africa in 2016.

Jonathan Ledgard spent two decades as an award-winning frontline foreign correspondent for The Economist. His second novel, Submergence, a New York Times book of the year, is presently being adapted for Hollywood by Wim Wenders.