Zaid Hassan is a member of Expeditionary's Advisory Board.

Zaid Hassan is a strategist, practitioner, and theorist whose work bridges evolutionary theory, culture, political economy, and complex systems. He has spent the last twenty-five years tackling the world’s most complex challenges. He worked on issues as diverse as agriculture, artificial intelligence, climate change, early childhood development, education, energy, financial systems, malnutrition, mental health, peace building and security, state collapse, sustainable development, and youth employment. 

Zaid co-founded 10-in-10 in 2019, where he is currently CEO, an organization with a mission to demonstrate how to effectively tackle ten complex challenges in ten years. 

Zaid teaches and guest lectures regularly. He has guest lectured at the University of Oxford, the California College of Arts, the New School in New York, New York University (Berlin) and the University of Bergen in Norway. For over a decade, Zaid has served as guest faculty at the Kaospilots, an innovative school for entrepreneurs in Denmark. He is currently a Social Innovation Fellow at Babson College. Zaid was an Associate Fellow at the Said Business School, University of Oxford for a year. 

His second book is called How to Evolve (Preakrill Press, 2026). It is what’s called in Arabic a rihla, a distillation of what Zaid’s journey so far has taught him. It builds on his previous best-selling book, The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach To Solving Our Most Complex Challenges (Berret-Koehler, 2014) as well as many papers, articles and essays.