Patrick Newell founded Tokyo International School 13 years ago. The School currently serves almost 350 students representing 45 nationalities in central Tokyo and has been a model school in many areas of education and learning. As a Learning Activist for the past eighteen years, Patrick has instigated change and enhanced learning environments in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Russia and North America. He focuses on developing collaborative models in technology, learning, board governance, accreditation, and design.

In 2008 Patrick Co-founded TEDxTokyo, an organization that focuses on bringing thinkers, doers and innovators from Japan and beyond to share ideas in English and Japanese. TEDxTokyo is an independent event that evolved out of TED, the premier world conference devoted to “ideas worth spreading.” Additionally, he is part of the team organizing TEDxYouth Day, which will be hosted in over 30 countries globally on November 20th.

Patrick is also the founder of Living Dreams, an NPO that enriches the lives of over 1,000 orphans from children’s homes in Japan. Living Dreams empowers these children through “Give now and make it LAST (Learning, Arts, Sports and Technology)”.