Michael P. Davidson
CEO
Gen Next
Michael P. Davidson connects innovative and successful leaders to dynamic
mission-based ideas and organizations, creating powerful networks that help
make the world better. As CEO of Gen Next, an exclusive organization of
successful individuals engaged with ensuring future generations have access to
great opportunities. Michael works with emerging and established leaders and
helps them take on tomorrow’s biggest societal challenges.

He has helped engage some of the brightest, most innovative entrepreneurs and
leaders from around the U.S. and world in Gen Next’s mission to ensure future
generations have opportunity to flourish. Gen Next has hosted hundreds of
programs with thoughts leaders, dignitaries, elected officials, and high-profile
business executives, allowing its Members to dialogue on global issues with the
world’s foremost experts and decision makers. Michael has also led Gen Next
delegations to key regions around the world, including China, Western Europe,
Brazil, Russia, and the Middle East, in order to stay at the leading edge of global
trends. Michael’s leadership has helped Gen Next provide unmatched experiences and impact to its
Members and partners.

In addition to his leadership of Gen Next, Michael is also the President of the Gen Next Foundation
(GNF), which utilizes venture philanthropy and private sector leadership to create high-impact solutions in
the areas of economic opportunity, education, and global security. Michael has helped lead GNF to
significant and bold initiatives around some of the world’s most difficult challenges. A recent
collaborations was with Google Ideas and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue on
the AgainstViolentExtremism.org Network (AVE).

Michael’s work supporting great missions and exploring generational issues goes beyond Gen Next. He
also serves on the U.S. Board of Directors for the Quilliam Foundation, the world’s first counter-extremism
think tank, which was created to address the unique challenges of citizenship, identity, and community in
a globalized world. He is also a Fellow at the Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern
California.

Michael is a Founding Member or PTTOW!, an annual summit that discusses culture, media, and
marketing to consumers between the ages of 14 and 34. He serves as an advisor to EQtainment, an
educational media company that promotes emotional intelligence. And he was formerly on the Board of
Managers of PersonalCare Physicians, a premier provider of exclusive concierge health and wellness
services.

He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and enjoys spending time with family and
friends, travel, movies, trying to play guitar, and reading.