Robyn Scott

Robyn Scott (born 9 January 1981) is a British-born writer and entrepreneur.

Robyn Scott
Born (1981-01-09) 9 January 1981
United Kingdom
OccupationEntrepreneur and writer
NationalityNew Zealander
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Notable worksTwenty Chickens for a Saddle
Website
Official website

She studied at Auckland University and Cambridge University. She was a Gates Scholar. Her first book, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle,[1] a memoir about growing up in Botswana, was published in March 2008. Her second book, Big Like Coca-Cola, is about a group of maximum security prisoners in South Africa who have adopted AIDS orphans.[2] Scott is also a co-founder of start-up OneLeap,[3] and of Southern African social enterprises Brothers for All and Mothers for All. She is presently CEO of policy platform Apolitical.[4]

Biography

Born in England, Scott moved with her parents to New Zealand briefly and then Botswana, where she spent most of her childhood. She attended high school in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and subsequently studied Bioinformatics at the University of Auckland followed by a Master of Bioscience Enterprise at the University of Cambridge. She is an ambassador for the Access to Medicine Index and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.[5] She was on Wired's 2012 Smart List of Fifty People Who Will Change The World.[6] She is now CEO of Apolitical, a global platform for policymakers that specialises in government innovation.[7]

Bibliography

Books
  • Scott, Robyn (2009). Twenty chickens for a saddle: the story of an African childhood. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780747596561.
  • Scott, Robyn (Forthcoming). Big like Coca-Cola.

Articles

Radio

TEDx lectures
gollark: Would you accept something as "truly thinking" if it appeared entirely identical to a human over a text chat?
gollark: That seems somewhat silly. It takes humans a lot of training to control complex real-world machinery, and that's with lots of intuition about the physical world in general already extant.
gollark: Interesting.
gollark: I know roughly how the training process works. I just dispute that it can't lead to "intelligence" of some kind.
gollark: And possibly about uses for it.

References
  1. Scott, Robyn (2009). Twenty chickens for a saddle: the story of an African childhood. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780747596561.
  2. Scott, Robyn. "About". robynscott.org. Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  3. "About". oneleap.to. Archived from the original on 4 January 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  4. "Home | Apolitical". Apolitical. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  5. "About". weforum.org. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  6. WIRED UK, Staff (February 2012). "The Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world". WIRED.CO.UK Condé Nast UK. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  7. "Government Innovation | Apolitical". Apolitical. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
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