About Robin Lewis

Robin works as a consultant at the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (part of the Climate Change Group) and runs an organisation called Social Innovation Japan – a platform for action focusing on the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He also runs MyMizu, Japan’s first free water refill app with a mission to reduce plastic consumption by enabling people to refill instead of buying bottled water. Robin is a professional speaker (TEDx, 50+ universities & international conferences), facilitator (high-level UN meetings), trainer (certified Monitoring & Evaluation trainer), and media commentator (featured by CNN, The Guardian, selected as Top 100 Influencer for the SDGs). Robin also serves as an advisor for purpose-driven programs (e.g. Judge for the world’s largest student social entrepreneurship competition, the Hult Prize), and has been selected as a Japan Foundation Fellow, an Asia-Europe Foundation Young Leader, a One Young World Ambassador, and an UNLEASH Innovation Lab SDG Talent.