Michael Peter Edson

Museum Director, Founder, and Digital Cultural Strategist

Michael Peter Edson is a director, strategist, and thought leader at the forefront of transformation in the cultural sector.

Michael was the founding Director and Chief Museum Officer of the Museum of Solutions (MuSo), a new, state-of-the-art facility in Mumbai, India, dedicated to inspiring and empowering young people to solve the world's most pressing problems.

In its inaugural year MuSo was named to TIME Magazine's World's 100 Greatest Places list and won the prestigious Hands On! Children In Museums Award bestowed by the European Museum Academy and the International Association of Children in Museums.

Previously, Michael was the co-founder of the Museum of the United Nations - UN Live in Copenhagen, and the Director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex in Washington, D.C.

Michael is a Salzburg Global Fellow; a Fellow at the Getty Leadership Institute; a Presidential Distinguished Fellow emeritus at the Council for Libraries and Information Resources (USA); and a juror for the MacArthur Foundation's $100 million grant initiative, $100 & Change, and Cumulus Green, a global design competition for solutions to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Michael is chair of the Europeana Foundation Advisory Board; he is an O'Reilly Foo Camp alumni; and he was named a "Tech Titan: person to watch" by Washingtonian magazine.

More about Michael's work can be found at https://usingdata.com/about