Robert Ayan is Managing Partner of Cambridge Advisors, Inc a consultancy specialized in human, social and economic development, where he delivers turn-key projects for public and private sector clients worldwide. Mr. Ayan served as Senior Advisor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to a Presidential science diplomacy initiative under the Obama administration. He served as Vice President of Business Development for Future Cities Development, Inc, a startup funded by Paypal's Peter Thiel that aimed to build innovative autonomous governments. He served as Chief Strategist to El Hassan Science City in Jordan where he worked on the design of a national innovation system. He also delivered a national high growth strategy to accelerate the growth of technology startups at the King Hussein Business Park for the USAID funded Jordan Competitiveness Program, an effort to attract $1 billion in new investment and create 40,000 new jobs. He is an angel investor and technology entrepreneur, and served as the Program Manager of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center where he helped entrepreneurs commercialize their innovations. He earned his Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an awarded Fellow of the MIT Carroll L. Wilson Circle, an intergenerational community of exceptional scholars, intellectuals and business entrepreneurs united around the concerns for global sustainability.