Rooted in place and guided by service, Rishi Jaitly is a leading advocate of the humanities with uncommon entrepreneurial, international and executive experience at the intersection of technology, media and civics. Presently, Jaitly is a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Humanities Fellow at Virginia Tech. He also founded and leads Virginia Tech’s Institute for Leadership in Technology, an effort to offer a new Executive Humanities Certificate to rising leaders in the technology landscape. Earlier in his career, he was the Founding CEO of venture firm Times Bridge, Twitter’s Vice President for Asia Pacific & Middle East, the Founder of Michigan Corps, the Detroit Director of the Knight Foundation, the public policy lead for College Summit and Google in South Asia and a speechwriter to Google’s Chairman and CEO. Jaitly earned his A.B. in history from Princeton University, where he later served as a Trustee, and presently serves on the Boards of Virginia Humanities and the National Humanities Center.