Ben Nelson is Founder and CEO of Minerva Project and Founder of Minerva University, and a visionary with a mission to reinvent higher education. Nelson started Minerva in 2011 with the goal of nurturing critical wisdom for the sake of the world through a systematic and evidence-based approach to learning. Over the past decade, Nelson has built Minerva University into the most selective, innovative (ranked #1 according to WURI), and effective university in the US, and has developed a business – Minerva Project – to share Minerva’s unique approach with other like-minded institutions. Prior to Minerva, Nelson spent more than 10 years at Snapfish. Nelson holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.