Dr. Corrin Varady

Dr. Corrin Varady is an author, EdTech entrepreneur, and CEO of IDEA Digital Education, which he founded in 2014. He leads a global team focused on providing high-quality, low-cost digital STEM education to emerging communities in Africa and the Middle East. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics (2015), two master's degrees with First Class Honours from Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi/UNSW and LSE, and a Bachelor of Commerce from UNSW. He founded the World Youth Education Trust (WYET), supporting marginalized students and former child soldiers in East Africa. He authored Vigorous Self Defense (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and produced the documentary The Road to Freedom Peak. He is a former Australia Day Ambassador and UNSW Young Alumni of the Year (2015).