Ravi Kapur

Ravi Kapur is a film-maker, social innovator, science communicator, multimedia producer and education expert, based in the UK and Italy. He has multi-disciplinary experience in education, media, technology, design, business and social policy. He is an expert in scientific, environmental and strategic communication. He has helped to establish numerous social impact ventures in the private, charitable and government sectors and has a long track record in managing complex international and multi-organisational projects. 

Ravi is the founder and managing director of Imperative Space, a diverse media, education, technology and innovation company working across the space sector, aimed at supporting democratisation of space technologies and improving access to data for everyone, including for policy, sustainable development and social impact purposes. The company’s work includes large-scale education, outreach and training initiatives, online courses, film and multimedia projects, data visualisation, data apps and platforms, interactive hardware, technical consultancy, design and research, in areas across space science and exploration and for diverse clients including ESA, EUMETSAT, ECMWF, Google, RAL Space, the UK Space Agency, Copernicus and many others.

Ravi has also acted as a senior advisor to numerous projects relating to climate change, environmental communications and the role of space technology for social good, including the EarthX data visualisation platform, the PandaSat cubesat project with WWF, the ESA Climate Change Initiative Knowledge Exchange Project, the Copernicus Marine and Ocean Training Service, and the SOLSTICE marine sustainable development training project.
 
His previous company, GovEd Communications, has provided innovative solutions across the education sector, including in curriculum development, school building design, interactive technology, skills development and policy, and supported wider public sector innovation and strategic communications. He was a co-founder, investor and COO of award-winning environmental data visualisation company Carbon Visuals, who’s diverse clients ranged across governments, climate advocates, broadcasters and NGOs around the world. 

Ravi was the founding director of the Innovation Challenges programme at NESTA in the UK, where he funded large-scale interventions in carbon reduction, energy efficiency, health care innovation, social care and education. The programme subsequently scaled in various forms of social innovation funding, including the UK’s Community Climate Fund, Health Innovation Launchpad, Public Service Innovation Labs and Longitude Prize.
 
Ravi has also held senior roles in other innovative education ventures, including as the co-founder and first National Director of the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme, Head of Communications and part of the founding management team at Teachers TV, and as a senior manager at the National Extension College. 

In the schools sector, he was a founding governor of the Space Studio School in the UK (the world's first full-time high school with a space science-oriented curriculum), and has been a governor of two other successful schools. He pioneered new forms of professional development support  for teachers, including video-based training, early social media tools and e-portfolios, working in partnership with the UK's General Teaching Council and teaching unions.

As a film-maker, Ravi has produced and directed hundreds of short films on science, technology, engineering and innovation, has made numerous longer-form documentary films in science, current affairs and the arts for television (including the BBC, Discovery and Channel 4) and independent distribution, and has worked on ground-breaking projects in IMAX, full-dome and 3D animation. He has also worked as a journalist in print, radio and television.

He has been involved in setting up, running and shaping several other private and charitable ventures, and regularly supports collaborations between science, music and the arts. As an occasional composer, music producer and musician, he has scored a number of documentaries, short films and commercials, and has collaborated with leading musicians in diverse genres including jazz, contemporary classical, electronic and independent music. 

For further information or general enquiries, please use the contact form below. For information about Imperative Space, please visit www.imperative.space and its dedicated MOOCs platform at www.imperativemoocs.com .

Ravi Kapur

Ravi Kapur is a film-maker, social innovator, science communicator, multimedia producer and education expert, based in the UK and Italy. He has multi-disciplinary experience in education, media, technology, design, business and social policy. He is an expert in scientific, environmental and strategic communication. He has helped to establish numerous social impact ventures in the private, charitable and government sectors and has a long track record in managing complex international and multi-organisational projects. 

Ravi is the founder and managing director of Imperative Space, a diverse media, education, technology and innovation company working across the space sector, aimed at supporting democratisation of space technologies and improving access to data for everyone, including for policy, sustainable development and social impact purposes. The company’s work includes large-scale education, outreach and training initiatives, online courses, film and multimedia projects, data visualisation, data apps and platforms, interactive hardware, technical consultancy, design and research, in areas across space science and exploration and for diverse clients including ESA, EUMETSAT, ECMWF, Google, RAL Space, the UK Space Agency, Copernicus and many others.

Ravi has also acted as a senior advisor to numerous projects relating to climate change, environmental communications and the role of space technology for social good, including the EarthX data visualisation platform, the PandaSat cubesat project with WWF, the ESA Climate Change Initiative Knowledge Exchange Project, the Copernicus Marine and Ocean Training Service, and the SOLSTICE marine sustainable development training project.
 
His previous company, GovEd Communications, has provided innovative solutions across the education sector, including in curriculum development, school building design, interactive technology, skills development and policy, and supported wider public sector innovation and strategic communications. He was a co-founder, investor and COO of award-winning environmental data visualisation company Carbon Visuals, who’s diverse clients ranged across governments, climate advocates, broadcasters and NGOs around the world. 

Ravi was the founding director of the Innovation Challenges programme at NESTA in the UK, where he funded large-scale interventions in carbon reduction, energy efficiency, health care innovation, social care and education. The programme subsequently scaled in various forms of social innovation funding, including the UK’s Community Climate Fund, Health Innovation Launchpad, Public Service Innovation Labs and Longitude Prize.
 
Ravi has also held senior roles in other innovative education ventures, including as the co-founder and first National Director of the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme, Head of Communi-cations and part of the founding management team at Teachers TV, and as a senior manager at the National Extension College. 

In the schools sector, he was a founding governor of the Space Studio School in the UK (the world's first full-time high school with a space science-oriented curriculum), and has been a governor of two other successful schools. He pioneered new forms of professional development support  for teachers, including video-based training, early social media tools and e-portfolios, working in partnership with the UK's General Teaching Council and teaching unions.

As a film-maker, Ravi has produced and directed hundreds of short films on science, technology, engineering and innovation, has made numerous longer-form documentary films in science, current affairs and the arts for television (including the BBC, Discovery and Channel 4) and independent distribution, and has worked on ground-breaking projects in IMAX, full-dome and 3D animation. He has also worked as a journalist in print, radio and television.

He has been involved in setting up, running and shaping several other private and charitable ventures, and regularly supports collaborations between science, music and the arts. As an occasional composer, music producer and musician, he has scored a number of documentaries, short films and commercials, and has collaborated with leading musicians in diverse genres including jazz, contemporary classical, electronic and independent music.

For further information or general enquiries, please use the contact form below. For information about Imperative Space, please visit www.imperative.space and its dedicated MOOCs platform at www.imperativemoocs.com .

Ravi Kapur

Ravi Kapur is a film-maker, social innovator, science communicator, multimedia producer and education expert, based in the UK and Italy. He has multi-disciplinary experience in education, media, technology, design, business and social policy. He is an expert in scientific, environmental and strategic communication. He has helped to establish numerous social impact ventures in the private, charitable and government sectors and has a long track record in managing complex international and multi-organisational projects. 

Ravi is the founder and managing director of Imperative Space, a diverse media, education, technology and innovation company working across the space sector, aimed at supporting democratisation of space technologies and improving access to data for everyone, including for policy, sustainable development and social impact purposes. The company’s work includes large-scale education, outreach and training initiatives, online courses, film and multimedia projects, data visualisation, data apps and platforms, interactive hardware, technical consultancy, design and research, in areas across space science and exploration and for diverse clients including ESA, EUMETSAT, ECMWF, Google, RAL Space, the UK Space Agency, Copernicus and many others.

Ravi has also acted as a senior advisor to numerous projects relating to climate change, environmental communications and the role of space technology for social good, including the EarthX data visualisation platform, the PandaSat cubesat project with WWF, the ESA Climate Change Initiative Knowledge Exchange Project, the Copernicus Marine and Ocean Training Service, and the SOLSTICE marine sustainable development training project.
 
His previous company, GovEd Communications, has provided innovative solutions across the education sector, including in curriculum development, school building design, interactive technology, skills development and policy, and supported wider public sector innovation and strategic communications. He was a co-founder, investor and COO of award-winning environmental data visualisation company Carbon Visuals, who’s diverse clients ranged across governments, climate advocates, broadcasters and NGOs around the world. 

Ravi was the founding director of the Innovation Challenges programme at NESTA in the UK, where he funded large-scale interventions in carbon reduction, energy efficiency, health care innovation, social care and education. The programme subsequently scaled in various forms of social innovation funding, including the UK’s Community Climate Fund, Health Innovation Launchpad, Public Service Innovation Labs and Longitude Prize.
 
Ravi has also held senior roles in other innovative education ventures, including as the co-founder and first National Director of the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme, Head of Communications and part of the founding management team at Teachers TV, and as a senior manager at the National Extension College. 

In the schools sector, he was a founding governor of the Space Studio School in the UK (the world's first full-time high school with a space science-oriented curriculum), and has been a governor of two other successful schools. He pioneered new forms of professional development support  for teachers, including video-based training, early social media tools and e-portfolios, working in partnership with the UK's General Teaching Council and teaching unions.

As a film-maker, Ravi has produced and directed hundreds of short films on science, technology, engineering and innovation, has made numerous longer-form documentary films in science, current affairs and the arts for television (including the BBC, Discovery and Channel 4) and independent distribution, and has worked on ground-breaking projects in IMAX, full-dome and 3D animation. He has also worked as a journalist in print, radio and television.

He has been involved in setting up, running and shaping several other private and charitable ventures, and regularly supports collaborations between science, music and the arts. As an occasional composer, music producer and musician, he has scored a number of documentaries, short films and commercials, and has collaborated with leading musicians in diverse genres including jazz, contemporary classical, electronic and independent music.

For further information or general enquiries, please use the contact form below. For information about Imperative Space, please visit www.imperative.space and its dedicated MOOCs platform at  www.imperativemoocs.com .

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