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Felix Brooks-Church

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Felix Brooks-Church has built his career around solving one of the world’s most overlooked public health problems: hidden hunger, the micronutrient malnutrition that quietly damages the health of millions of women and children in low-income communities. As co-founder and CEO of Sanku, a social enterprise headquartered in East Africa, he has turned that mission into a scalable technology solution that now reaches more than 25 million people, with an ambitious target of protecting 100 million people from malnutrition by 2030.

Felix’s path into this work was anything but conventional. Trained originally as a graphic designer and product developer, with a BA in Geology from Oberlin College, he found his calling in 2007 while volunteering with street children in Cambodia, where he witnessed the devastating effects of malnutrition firsthand and committed himself to finding a lasting solution. That commitment led him to design Sanku’s Dosifier, a smart fortification device that allows small, rural flour mills to add life-saving nutrients to their product without increasing costs for consumers, an innovation later named a TIME Magazine Invention of the Year in 2019.

Under Felix’s leadership, Sanku now partners with more than 1,500 flour mills and has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, alongside recognition including the Zayed Sustainability Prize, the Elevate Prize and the Lipman Family Prize. Felix himself is a 2021 Rolex Awards for Enterprise Laureate and a Mulago Fellow, honours that reflect both his technical ingenuity and his sustained moral commitment to ensuring nutrition is treated as a fundamental right regardless of geography or income.

Born in Ibiza, Spain and now based in Sydney, Felix remains an influential voice on the global stage for health equity and innovation in international development, and speaks candidly to audiences about the systems thinking required to scale a genuinely life-saving idea from a single volunteering trip into a solution now protecting millions of people across an entire continent.

Book Felix Brooks-Church keynote speaker to bring a firsthand account of building a mission-driven enterprise that has scaled from a single idea to protecting the health of over 25 million people. His talks blend hard-won lessons in design thinking, resilience, and social entrepreneurship with a clear call to action for audiences in business, philanthropy, and government. Contact us to check availability.

Keynote Topics

From Ibiza to Impact: A Journey of a Social Entrepreneur

How an unconventional upbringing and a chance encounter with malnutrition in Cambodia sparked a movement to transform nutrition for millions in Africa and what it taught me about leadership, grit, and vision. A behind-the-scenes look at the risks, resilience, and rewards of building a mission-driven enterprise from scratch.

Inventing for Good: How Design Thinking Can Save Lives

The story of turning a simple engineering idea into Sanku’s award-winning Dosifier, named a TIME Invention of the Year and how innovation can be harnessed to solve humanity’s toughest challenges.

Scaling the Impossible: From One Idea to 25 Million People

What it takes to grow a social enterprise from a napkin sketch to impacting millions, and the leadership lessons learned along the way.

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Audiences consistently describe Felix Brooks-Church keynote speaker sessions as equal parts inspiring and instructive, praising his ability to turn a story of grassroots social entrepreneurship into concrete lessons on innovation, resilience, and scaling for impact.

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