Priten Soundar-Shah

Priten Kadakia Soundararajan-Shah is an educator, philosopher, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of technology and education.

He is the CEO of Pedagogy Ventures, where he integrates cutting-edge technology with proven teaching strategies to help educational organizations.

He also supports three nonprofits: PedagogyFutures, as Executive Director, which provides professional development resources to build a responsible, ethical, human-centered future for educational technology; Academy 4 Social Civics, as Chair, which is dedicated to civics education that prepares students to tackle future challenges; and ThinkerAnalytix, as CTO, which is working to scale critical thinking instruction at educational institutions around the world.

Soundararajan-Shah is the author of the AI & The Future of Education: Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Wiley, 2023), which was translated into Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, and Vietnamese. He also teaches courses on the Ethics of Ed Tech, Family & Society, and Epistemic Justice at College Unbound, a bachelor’s degree-granting institution focused on adult learners.

He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard College and an M.Ed. in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education