Sophie Schmidt is the founder & publisher of Rest of World, an award-winning international technology news organization. She has worked in tech and politics in China, the UAE, the UK, South Africa and Myanmar, and previously held comms & policy roles at Uber. She earned an MBA from Stanford and MPA from Harvard. In 2024, she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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
