Alexander Yuryev

I am an impact entrepreneur, inventor, founder of a few projects, which I am truly passionate about.

I was born in 1988 in the city of Chita, USSR, the East Siberian town that was built on permafrost. My grandparents, a medical professor and a teacher of physics, were a great influence. With their continuous encouragement I spent my school years in pursuit of knowledge. Still as a schoolboy...
See More I attended a college where I studied programming and graphic design.

In 2005 I became a student of the Herzen State University in St. Petersburg with International Law as my major. Towards the end of the studies, I successfully worked with the trial attorneys, but I was also keen on many other subjects. My jobs in my father's companies and my own entrepreneurial activities in construction, transportation and marketing were my other university.

In 2009 I went on with my studies at Technology & Science University of Beijing, China, where I had my first insights of digitizing best teaching practices. In 2012 I moved to China’s technological “Mecca,” Shenzhen, to become a founder of a few projects, which are interrelated, and which I am listing below.

Gender: Male