Saeed Valadbaygi is a Founder, Director, Editor. He is a global influencer in financial technology (#FinTech), Artificial Intelligence (#AI) and #BigData ^[19][20][21]. He is living in Canada and is known for covering informative news on financial technology, corruption, modern slavery and socio-politics of the Middle East and Iran. ^[4] He is also a known business leader, community manager, human rights defender, and former United Nations manager. ^[17]

Valadbaygi was born and raised in the country of Iran. He grew up in Kermanshah and Tehran for most of his upbringing, which is also the same place where he started working with international organizations. ^{[4] [3] [10]}

Valadbaygi attended York University with a double-major in Cognitive science: Functionalism (philosophy of mind)^[18] and Political Science. ^[17] He was originally a student at Amirkabir University back in Iran.

During his time as a student in Iran he worked with international organizations.

While living in Turkey for a brief time period, he was a part of the United Nations as a worker who helped victims of war.

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He was also a teacher for the Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey (TEGV) from September 2007 until April of 2009.

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After his time as a humanitarian worker, he placed his efforts into making his news stories available through social media and international news outlets. He worked for Channel 4 as a Journalist ^[17] and his work published in NYTimes, Washington Post, CNN, the Guardian and others.

For a decade, he worked for enterprise and global leaders in Europe and North America as a Solution Architect, Data Analyst, and Digital Strategist.

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He is currently the Executive Director of the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation

He is the founding member of several large-scale start-ups such as Datacracy, EziFund, Observatory, Kaar Axon, Station K and Dokan ^[17]

He is currently the Editor in Chief of Tirgan magazine, the largest festival of Iranian arts and culture in the world.

He is currently the Editor in Chief of the Canadian Science Policy Magazine.

He is currently on the top 100 list of the most influential thought-leaders and thinkers on social media across key financial communities^[22][19].

He lived and worked in Istanbul, London, Rome, and Paris before arriving in Canada where he was welcomed and connected with an ex-pat Iranian community in Toronto. ^[4]