Pratik Kunwar, an award-winning serial innovator, is the Founder of Ekjut Nepal, Center for AI Innovation, the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and co-founder of Verified Carbon LLC, among others.

His organizations' programs have reached over 1,000,000 people in Nepal and more than 10 million people globally, and featured by Time, Forbes, United Nations, and WEF, among others.

An international youth advocate, Pratik has spoken at the Davos summit, European Parliament, World Forum for Democracy, and One Young World about his work in governance, climate and youth participation. Pratik is recognized as a Next Generation Leader by Asia Society in 2024, as one of the world's best social change leaders in 2022 and 2024 by Echoing Green, and serves on the European Union's International Youth Sounding Board (2023-25). He has also served as a judge for MIT Solve's Civic Innovation Challenge, and been a finalist for both the Nelson Mandela Innovation Award and the Global Pluralism Award in 2022.

Pratik served on the Advisory Council of the Global Shapers Community (2022-25) supporting over 15,000 young leaders across 500 cities globally.

Pratik received his Masters in Data, Economics, and Policy Design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, becoming the first from his country to do so.