Morad Fareed

Morad Fareed is an ecosystem entrepreneur, inventor and former pro athlete. He is the founder of FC Mother and World Cup of Healing, which transforms the power of global football into a new global healing movement for mothers. Morad’s love and gratitude for his own mother led him to found a Harvard fund and research lab on motherhood and develop a solution to the USD 27 trillion global challenge of unhealthy pregnancy.

Morad previously founded the unicorn company Delos, which invented the USD 400 billion global industry of healthier buildings. His first lab, the WELL Living Lab at the Mayo Clinic, is recognised today as the global leader on healthy building science and his company’s footprint spans 140 countries with over 77,000 healthy building projects.

A former footballer for the Palestinian National Team in the FIFA 2006 World Cup, Morad became the first pro athlete to win the Edison Award for Science as an inventor. He was named on the Fast Company Most Innovative Companies list and the Fast Company’s 25 Most Creative People in Business list, among other accolades.

Morad began his career at 19 at Goldman Sachs, earned a degree in Economics and Philosophy from NYU, where he captained the Men’s Soccer Team for four years. He later went on to become NYU’s Assistant Coach. His football career has spanned multiple documentaries, including feature film Goal Dreams, Nike Soccer NYC, BBC’s Frontline Football, TRT’s Mothers of Football and the upcoming Amazon Prime show The World Cup of Healing.

His board seats have included the Smithsonian, will.i.am’s Foundation, the Vatican’s Humanity 2.0 Foundation, and Clinton 2030, among others.