15 Facts About Boyd Cohen

In recent years, Boyd Cohen has become most recognized for his work in smart cities, beginning with his Smart Cities Wheel framework and associated annual rankings of smart cities.

Boyd Cohen obtained his undergraduate degree in Organizational Behavior from Miami University in 1993.

Boyd Cohen completed his master's degree in Human Resources from the University of South Carolina.

Boyd Cohen later joined Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and served as an adjunct at the University of British Columbia.

Since then Boyd Cohen has been on the faculty at business schools in Argentina, Chile and Barcelona, Spain.

Boyd Cohen has been involved in several sustainable startups since the early 2000s.

Boyd Cohen then co-founded Visible Strategies, a smart city software as a service solution focused on assisting cities transparently track and communicate their sustainability progress against long-term measurable objectives.

Boyd Cohen then founded a mobile app company, 3rdWhale which focused on developing smartphone apps for green consumers.

Boyd Cohen is co-founder and CEO of IoMob which is a blockchain project developing the Internet of Mobility.

Boyd Cohen has spent much of his professional life researching sustainability, entrepreneurship and smart cities.

Climate Capitalism was published in 2011 and helped Boyd Cohen become more globally known for his work.

Boyd Cohen began writing for Triple Pundit, Fast Company, the Huffington Post, and UBM Future Cities.

In 2014, Boyd Cohen joined forces with Esteve Almirall from ESADE in Barcelona, and Henry Chesbrough to launch a special issue of the California Management Review focused on cities, open innovation and the collaborative economy.

In 2016, Boyd Cohen published The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur with a foreword by Richard Florida and support from Pablo Munoz.

Boyd Cohen is a frequent speaker on the topic of sustainability and smart cities, and has been featured as keynote speaker and did a TEDx talk in 2013.