Douglas Bell
About Douglas Bell
Lateral thinker. Ignore my education & business experience for a second, as one of the things that makes me so different is being able to draw on extraordinary life experiences; like living in West Africa as the only white man in town, or driving down India in a 3-wheeler. My 20s were packed with activity like this, that taught me far more than studies at Harvard. I've experienced life at the fringes... living in, and travelling in 40 different countries around the world, as diverse as Ethiopia, Peru, Morocco, Bosnia, South Africa, Iceland and India. Facing 3rd-world arrests, breakdowns, language barriers, guns, corruption, wild animals, bureaucracy, black markets, junkies, gangs, extreme poverty, hypothermia, crooks and land mines... So life has been one great adventure after another. A constant learning experience. This helps me to view problems and opportunities from a completely different perspective. It's deep-end travel experiences like these that led me to create Frontier. Add into that, the privileged perspective gained from setting up London Innovators; a birds-eye view on innovation, in one of the most creative cities in the world.