Matthew Keller
Matt Keller is the partnership lead for North America for the UN World Food Programme's Innovation Accelerator. Prior to re-joining WFP, Keller was Executive Director of the $15 million Global Learning XPRIZE sponsored by Elon Musk which he led for six years. Previously, as Vice-President of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Keller led OLPC’s ground-breaking literacy project in remote Ethiopia testing the theory that children from non-literate communities could teach themselves to read using tablets filled with off-the-shelf applications. He has worked as a senior program officer with the United Nations World Food Programme serving in Rome, Italy, where he worked both as a lawyer and as a key advocate in raising global awareness around the issue of child hunger, working with governments, the private sector and citizens from dozens of countries around the world.
Biography current as of June 10, 2019