Rohan Silva is Chair of Founders Factory Australia, having brought London’s leading tech accelerator to Australia for the first time, with $22 million of generous funding from Rio Tinto and the WA government to invest in clean-tech and nature-tech startups.
Rohan was previously Senior Policy Adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron, and was responsible for developing key policies to boost technology and innovation in the UK – such as Entrepreneur Visas, angel investment tax breaks and the Tech City initiative, which helped build London into a global tech hub.
After leaving 10 Downing Street, Rohan was appointed a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, before founding Second Home – a social impact company supporting culture and innovation in London, Lisbon and Los Angeles. In 2016, Rohan also founded Libreria bookshop in East London, a critically acclaimed space for literature and ideas.
He has also been named as a Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow at the Royal College of Art in London, and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics.
