Ben Nelson

Ben Nelson is Founder and CEO of Minerva Project, Founder of Minerva University, and a visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education. Nelson started Minerva in 2011 with the goal of nurturing critical wisdom for the sake of the world through a systematic and evidence-based approach to learning. Over the past decade, Nelson has built Minerva University into the most selective, most effective, and most innovative university in the world (named #1 for four consecutive years according to WURI rankings). Minerva Project was created to share Minerva's unique approach with other like-minded institutions and has since accelerated the creation of groundbreaking new programs, new colleges, and entirely new universities worldwide.