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Ramin’s career has been about enabling learning through his pragmatic leadership at higher education institutions, as a master teacher creating meaningful learning experiences, and as an entrepreneur and institutional investor in furthering innovation within organizations.

He is a seasoned executive having led several world-class organizations (UCSF, Stanford, Penn, American University of Beirut, and Weill Cornell Medicine) that span health care, academic medicine, consulting, and higher education. He has successfully navigated these entities through periods of great change. He is known as a visionary and strategic leader with implementation discipline to enable transformative impact. 

As an award-winning teacher, Ramin’s courses  were consistently rated by students as the most satisfying in their program employing  early versions of hybrid learning, cohort learning, and experiential learning concepts. . 

His current area of professional interest is about how new learning technologies can best advance human learning in both traditional and innovative settings given the opportunities created by the intersection of AI/ML, increasing global and situational complexity, and the exponential rate of change in the 21st century.  His passion is to help organizations thrive amidst adversity and change.

Ramin is an active mentor and life coach, an avid ultrarunner, and an aspiring writer, working on fiction and non-fiction projects.