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Cristina Riesen

EIC Ambassador, former EIC Board Member

Cristina Riesen

Biography

Founder and CEO Educreators Foundation

Cristina is a seasoned entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the fields of innovation, communication, emerging technologies and education. In recent years she was General Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Evernote, managed the launch of the Swiss EdTech Collider at EPFL, worked with the Strategic Development Team at ETH Zurich and founded the impact network Educreators Foundation. She is an edtech expert and a Steering Board Member of DigiEduHack - an EIT initiative under the European Commission's Digital Education Action Plan. Cristina was named Digital Shaper by the Swiss economic magazine Bilanz in 2019 and 2020.