Ben Sheppard is the co-founder and Chair of Design for Good, a global charitable alliance spanning 30 countries working pro bono to develop products and services with the goal to improve 10 million lives by 2030 and advance selected UN Sustainable Development Goals. He brought together the founding members, including General Mills, LIXIL, Logitech, McKinsey, Nedbank, Nestlé, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Philips and the Royal College of Art.

Ben works with boards and CEOs to grow innovative, design-led businesses and has recently taken interim leadership roles of cutting-edge medical technology companies. A former long-standing Partner at McKinsey & Company, he led the firm’s global research on design, including the Red Dot-winning Business Value of Design series. For many years, he convened the Chief Design Officer Roundtable — a forum of 50 of the world’s most senior design leaders, whose work touches the lives of seven in eight people on the planet. 

Ben is Senior Advisor to the Design Council, a member of Fortune's Global Advisory Council on design, a former Dezeen master jury member, and a visiting lecturer at institutions including the Royal College of Art.