Piotr Gierszewski
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Senior Design Lead
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Piotrek brings over 15 years of research and design experience across academia, and the private and non-profit sectors.
His expertise spans discovery research, strategy development and design thinking, with a focus on enabling breakthrough solutions to pressing societal challenges.
At Challenge Works, he supports mission-driven NGOs, corporations, government agencies and regulators - both in the UK and internationally - in turning complex problems into clear and impactful challenges that inspire diverse innovators to build better solutions. He combines design thinking with deep sector insight to identify the art of the possible and to design the incentives and support needed to achieve it.
Over the years, Piotrek has led the design of numerous innovation programmes on topics ranging from emerging approaches to whale conservation and expanding access to surgical procedures in low-resource settings to advancing new frontiers in space exploration.
Before joining Challenge Works, Piotrek worked as a technology scout for a science commercialisation consultancy and as a life scientist specialising in epigenetics and molecular biology at the University of Cambridge.
Outside of work, you’re likely to find him in a kayak, at the gym, or performing with fire - including fire breathing (albeit less often since growing a beard).
