Bo Stjerne Thomsen | Head of Educational Impact
LEGO Education

Bo Stjerne Thomsen, PhD, is the Head of Educational Impact in LEGO Education, leading the global impact, content, and experience design team. He was previously the Vice‐President, Chair of Learning through Play and the Global Head of Research, part of the executive leadership team in the LEGO Foundation, leading the international research, education, and impact agenda. Bo Stjerne has led innovative programs across education in more than 25 countries, at some of the worlds most esteemed universities, being academic advisor to governments across more than 15 countries and multi‐lateral organizations like WEF, OECD, WISE, UN, and corporate networks.
He has established academic rigor, governance principles and recruiting academic faculties, while being affiliated as researcher, educator, and advisor to universities like MIT, Harvard, Tufts, Cambridge, EPFL, DTU and Tsinghua University. Originally an engineer and architect by training and with 10 years of international practice, he has more than 20 publications on innovative pedagogies, the role of technology and new forms of assessments, with a renewed look at the science of learning, creativity and play.