Rikin Gandhi, CEO and co-founder of Digital Green, has a background in computer science and aerospace engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and MIT. He has worked at Oracle, Microsoft Research, and co-authored significant works on agri-food innovation systems. Since setting up as a non-profit in 2008, Digital Green has been improving the cost-effectiveness of agricultural extension in South Asia and Africa with videos by and for farmers serving 100,000 extension agents and 6 million farmers, and now is leveraging generative AI to flip the paradigm of extension for women farmers at the frontlines of climate change.
American Academy President Laurie Patton to Receive Concordia’s 2026 Leadership Award for Civil Society
The Concordia Leadership Council is proud to announce Dr. Laurie L. Patton, President of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, as the second of three recipients of the 2026
