Coordinator of Impact, Innovation and Intelligence
Carlos
Miranda Levy
Artificial Intelligence • Disruptive Innovation • Effective Learning • Social Impact • Human Development
Photo: Andy McGovern / TEDxTokyo
About
Professional Profile
Innovation and technology expert with over 25 years transforming organizations across private, public, social, and international sectors around the world. A certified lean startup consultant and social entrepreneur who has co-founded, led, and advised multiple social impact technology initiatives across four continents — while building a career at the service of international organizations, government agencies, corporations, and nonprofits.
Deeply invested in developing AI models that capture the depth, nuance, and contextual intelligence of human expertise — and in the practical application of AI across business, education, law, media, culture, and social development. This is not about automation; it is about augmenting human capability within specific professional and cultural contexts.
Founder and coordinator of CEMI.ai (Collectively Enhanced Multiple Intelligence) — a collective where hundreds of AI personas, professionals, and agents collaborate with humans in practical and experimental applications of AI. From business strategy to legal analysis, from music production to video creation, from education to journalism — CEMI.ai operates at the intersection of what we used to call human life, cultural fabric, and social ecosystem, now enhanced and augmented with the active participation of AI.
Fellowship
Stanford University
Reuters Digital Vision Fellow — Innovation, entrepreneurship, and social impact at one of the world’s leading innovation and education institutions.
Residency
National University of Singapore
Social Entrepreneur in Residence — Developing sustainable models for social innovation across Asia.
About
Personal Profile
I am rational and structured in my thinking. My instinct is to deconstruct, build frameworks, construct models, and work systematically from them. But this structure serves as a launchpad, not a cage — my approach is deeply creative, innovative, and deliberately unconventional. I believe fundamentally in collaboration and participation as design principles. My worldview is anchored in shared prosperity — the conviction that doing well and doing good are reinforcing objectives. I am a firm believer in free markets and neo-liberal economics, favoring minimal government intervention.
I have lived across four continents — Menlo Park, New York, Singapore, Paris, Port of Spain, Santiago, Tokyo, and Santo Domingo where I currently reside. Born in 1971, this geographic range is formative — it shapes how I read markets, cultures, institutions, and people. I speak fluent Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese; languages acquired through immersion in the places where they are lived.
I am the father of a young man born in 2012. We share a close, active relationship built on honesty, trust, and genuine enjoyment of each other’s company — audiobooks, video games, biking, open-water swimming, films, and anime. We also share our home with Snoopy, a white boxer with a brown patch on her left eye.
I maintain regular physical activity — swimming, running, and biking several times a week — with the deep conviction that physical activity is not a wellness trend or fitness goal but a structural part of how one thinks and operates. I have biked hundreds of miles on solo rides connecting cities across the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe.
Philosophy
NEVER HELP
Engage, Enable, Inspire, Empower and Connect
The word “help” implies asymmetry — someone who knows better providing solutions to someone who doesn’t. That assumption is the starting point of dependency, not development. My mantra rejects it deliberately and proposes a five-stage alternative, where each stage builds on the previous one:
Engage
Meet stakeholders where they are. They must be part of understanding their own situation before any solution is designed. No one should diagnose or prescribe on behalf of others without their active participation in the process.
Enable
Provide knowledge, skills, and tools — never finished solutions. The goal is to build capability, not to create dependency. Nothing should be given without requesting something in return, because exchange creates ownership and commitment.
Inspire
Show possibilities and opportunities that expand what stakeholders believe they can achieve. Aspiration is not imposed; it is awakened by exposure to what is possible.
Empower
Shift ownership entirely. Stakeholders build their own path. The role of the enabler is to provide scaffolding — frameworks, resources, access — not to construct the building.
Connect
Link stakeholders to others, to networks, and to the world, so their growth never depends on a single point of failure. Synergies and networks multiply what any individual or organization can achieve alone, and ensure sustainability beyond any single relationship.
This philosophy applies universally across my work — in education, business transformation, social entrepreneurship, technology adoption, and personal relationships. It is not a methodology for specific projects; it is a worldview about how human potential is unlocked. And in education it is learning-first, not teaching-first: what matters is the learner’s experience — what they come to understand and become able to do — not the teaching.
Recognition
Global Impact, Recognized Worldwide
Honored by leading institutions for contributions to technology, innovation, and social entrepreneurship.
His leadership has been recognized by the world’s most prestigious institutions: Stanford, Google, and Reuters Fellow; Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the National University of Singapore; awarded the TEDChange Scholarship by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and distinguished by MIT as an Emerging Leader, Scholar and Entrepreneur. CNN named him one of the “20 Internet Leaders in Latin America,” marking his trajectory as a digital pioneer.
CNN
“20 Latin American Leaders of the Internet”
MIT
“Emerging Leader, Scholar and Entrepreneur”
“Developing World Scholarship”
Stanford
“Digital Vision Fellow”
Supported By
Grants and scholarships from leading global foundations
The Journey
From a TI-99 to Four Continents
My relationship with technology began in 1981, at age 10, with a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A home computer and a first-generation IBM PC — machines that turned early curiosity into a lifelong conviction about technology’s power to transform. By 1996, that conviction led to founding CIVILA (Ciudades Virtuales Latinas), one of the earliest social networks in Latin America — built years before Friendster, MySpace, or Facebook existed. In 2000, CNN recognized me as one of the 20 most influential leaders of the Internet in Latin America.
I studied Economics and have since built a career at the crossroads of innovation, education, social entrepreneurship, technology, and human development. My work has spanned international organizations, universities, governments, social organizations, and private companies across four continents — from Silicon Valley to Singapore, from Paris to Port of Spain, from Santiago to Santo Domingo.
My trajectory is marked by a consistent pattern: identifying moments where technology, human potential, and systemic change intersect, and building frameworks, projects, and organizations at those intersections. Whether working on disaster relief technology, educational platforms reaching millions, or business transformation strategies, the through-line is always the same — using innovation to create conditions where people and organizations can transcend their circumstances.
Roles & Experience
Connect
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