Cesar Harada

Cesar Harada is a French-Japanese inventor, environmentalist, entrepreneur, and TED Fellow. Harada is the founder and director of MakerBay, a community for makers of all ages to affect social and environmental impact through education & entrepreneurship.

As an inventor, Harada tries to create harness ocean currents, the wind, and other naturally occurring phenomena to solve mankind’s worst disasters, like oil spills and radioactive leaks.

Harada is the creator of Protei, a revolutionary sailing technology -- featuring a front rudder, flexible hull and open-source hardware -- that allows for efficient cleanup of both oil and plastics from the sea. As well, he created Scoutbots, an open hardware shape-shifting sailing robot for ocean sensing and cleaning.

Harada is the general coordinator of the International Ocean Station, an open-source hardware, and software mobile laboratory.

He teaches Masters in Design & Environment at the Goldsmiths University of London, Versailles architecture School in France

Harada is a former project leader at MIT, TED Senior Fellow, GOOD 100, IBM Figure of Progress, Unreasonable at Sea Fellow, and Shuttleworth foundation and Ocean Exchange grantee. He graduated from the Royal College of Arts Design Interactions in London and worked at the Southampton University Hydrodynamics laboratory on wave energy.