Christopher Mikkelsen

Social entrepreneur Christopher Mikkelsen co-founded Refugees United together with his brother, David Mikkelsen, in 2008 based on a personal experience trying to reconnect a young Afghan refugee with his family. Realising the lack of any global, IT-based infrastructure to help refugees locate missing family, the two brothers set out to change these state of things and built the first-ever global, web-based search tool for refugees. Refugees United was built via an open-source, collaborative approach to building an organisation via partnerships with large corporate players as well as other non-profit organisations.

Christopher Mikkelsen is member of the Clinton Global Initiative 2010, has been named "New World Hero - People who deserve a bigger stage in 2009" by Monocle Magazine, nominated as "People of the Year 2009" by DAS Magazin, and has just been nominated as PopTech Fellow 2011.