Julien Leyre is a French-Australian writer, educator, and governance innovator. Together with Carin Ism, Leyre is co-author of the upcoming book "How to Rule a World: A Guide to the Established and Emerging Tools for Power and Governance in the 21st Century” and co-founder of FOGA. Leyre is the COO of Australian power company reVolt, developing new business models to fast-track a large-scale transition to green energy. He was previously the editor-in-chief at the Global Challenges Foundation where he developed and curated quarterly publications on global risks and governance. Previous to this, Leyre founded the Marco Polo Project, a Melbourne-based charity reinventing social work for global communities, with particular focus on China. Leyre is an alumnus of Paris-Sorbonne University and Ecole Normale Supérieure and is also completing a PhD in digital Chinese language education as a distributed global public good in the making. Leyre was listed on the Victorian Multicultural Honour Roll in 2016 and won New Australian of the Year in 2017.
