Simon Greer

Simon Greer is a social entrepreneur and nationally recognized bridge-builder with more than 30 years on the front lines of America’s most polarized conflicts. An innovator and a serial nonprofit founder—having founded 7 successful organizations over the last 20 years—he has led major organizations through reinvention and built new ventures designed to help people engage difference without abandoning conviction.

He is the Founder and President of Cambridge Heath Ventures and the creator of Courageous Conversations at The Nantucket Project and Bridging the Gap at Interfaith America, initiatives that equip university students, industry leaders, and civic organizations to navigate division and solve complex problems together.

Across the U.S. political spectrum, in small towns, on college campuses, in the Middle East, and inside America’s prison system, Greer has convened and hosted live dialogues modeling how curiosity and candor can coexist and span divides. In 2025, he received a MidSouth Emmy® Award for producing The North Carolina Listening Project. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative and serves as the Managing Director of the Fund for New Leadership. His work centers on a simple premise: the future depends on our ability to talk to each other, forge connections, and collaborate across lines of difference to solve our most pressing problems.