Before Oxford, Shawn spent several years building social innovation incubator Global Agents for Change (GAFC). GAFC works on global poverty through initiatives including: Education Generation, crowdfunding scholarships in low income countries (now called The School Fund following a non-profit merger); Global Catalyst Initiative, delivering financial and technical support for a cluster of East African impact start-ups; and Riding to Break the Cycle, a cycle touring and youth leadership enterprise that saw participants cycle more than 400,000 km in 18 countries. Currently, Shawn is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of RADIUS (Radical Ideas, Useful to Society) at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University in his hometown Vancouver. He designs and teaches social innovation and entrepreneurship programming, while his growing team both drives social innovation strategy for the university, and runs a suite of programmes at the intersection of entrepreneurship and systems change. These include problem themed incubation and acceleration cohorts, multi-year social innovation lab partnerships, and an annual fellowship for emerging social economy leaders. Shawn is also helping run a multi-year programme and national network with the Banff Centre in Canada to develop entrepreneurial solutions to economic inequality, and is Co-Founder of Impacto Quito, an incubator and co-working space helping catalyse and develop Ecuador’s impact entrepreneurship community.