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About
Riwa Harfoush is Executive Director at Friendly Futures. She previously served as Chief Strategy Officer at Woven Science, a company operating in the psychedelics and mental wellbeing sector, and as Chief of Strategy and Partnerships at OSI (now OSE), a technology company focused on developing deep science and technology ventures from Oxford. Earlier in her career, she spent more than five years at innovation and foresight firm Idea Couture, where she was Head of Growth Strategy and later Managing Director of the MENA business, and she holds an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.
Chief Strategy Officer at Woven
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Nick von ChristiersonCEO & Co-Founder
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Giles HaywardPresident & Co-Founder
Experience
- Friendly FuturesExecutive Directorcurrent2020 — present
- The Meaning CollectiveFoundercurrent2023 — present
- Woven ScienceChief Strategy Officer2021 — 2023
- Woven ScienceStrategic Advisor2020 — 2021
- Oxford Sciences InnovationChief of Strategy & Partnerships2019 — 2020Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Sciences InnovationHead of Network Intelligence2016 — 2019London & Oxford UK
- Red Thread |Institute of Digital CultureCo-founder2014 — 2016Paris + Global
- Sciences PoAdjunct Professor2015 — 2016Paris
- Thousand NetworkFounding Ambassador, Toronto2014 — 2016Toronto
- Idea Couture Inc.Managing Director, MENA2013 — 2014London, UK + MENA
- Idea Couture Inc.Head of Growth Strategy, Executive Leadership Team2009 — 2014
- Manara International Resources IncStrategist2008 — 2012
- TAXIAccount Manager, Intern2008Greater Toronto Area, Canada
- TAXINew Business Development Intern2007Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area
- TAXIAccount Manger, Intern2006Greater Toronto Area, Canada
Skills & more
Writing1Curating1Cross-Modalism1Critical ThinkingBrand StrategyDigital Strategy32Strategy56Digital Marketing12Marketing Strategy13Customer Insight25Account Management4Business Strategy21
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Strategic PlanningBusiness DevelopmentStrategic ThinkingDesign ThinkingStrategic ConsultingDesign StrategyExperience DesignInnovation ConsultingCreative StrategyBrand DevelopmentNew Business DevelopmentCompetitive AnalysisLanguages Arabic · English · French
- Skipper License — OCSC SAILING
- Sivananda 200hour Yoga and Meditation Teaching Certification — Yoga Alliance
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- Who is Riwa Harfoush?
- Riwa Harfoush is Executive Director at Friendly Futures. She previously served as Chief Strategy Officer at Woven Science, a company operating in the psychedelics and mental wellbeing sector, and as Chief of Strategy and Partnerships at OSI (now OSE), a technology company focused on developing deep science and technology ventures from Oxford. Earlier in her career, she spent more than five years at innovation and foresight firm Idea Couture, where she was Head of Growth Strategy and later Managing Director of the MENA business, and she holds an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.
- Where does Riwa Harfoush work?
- Riwa Harfoush is Chief Strategy Officer at Woven.
- Where did Riwa Harfoush go to school?
- Riwa Harfoush studied at Ivey Business School at Western University (HBA, MIT); California Institute of Integral Studies (Graduate Certificate, Integral Ecology); SDA Bocconi (HBA, Innovation).
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