Michael Brenner is a Designer, Facilitator, and Creative Data Strategist, and currently leads the Interaction Design Programme at CIID. With just over two decades of experience working in cross-disciplinary teams across the cultural, educational, and social impact sectors, his work centers on research, social impact, and community-based design interventions.

Prior to joining CIID, Michael helped establish Data4Change as a non-profit organisation. Data4Change works with a wide array of civil society organisations, activists, human rights defenders, and creative talent, collaborating at the intersection of data, design, technology, and journalism to forge real change and lasting impact. Before that, he served as Design Director at data and design studio Beyond Words Studio (formerly Information is Beautiful Studio) in London.

Earlier in his career, Michael ran his own studio and design collective in Rotterdam, the Netherlands — ContentContext — where he also taught Graphic Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy and lectured in the Fashion department on design, communication, and lifestyle trends. Prior to founding his own studio, he worked as a designer at MGMT. Design and Tsang Seymour Design in New York City and Winterhouse Studio.

Across these roles, he has had the opportunity to work on and lead projects for organisations including the UN, World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, the Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the New York Times, Cooper Hewitt, Al Gore, and Queen Sirikit of Thailand, among others.

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