Gavin Armstrong Biography

Dr. Gavin Armstrong is committed impact entrepreneur. He is currently serving as the Founder and President of Lucky Iron Fish™ a social enterprise attempting to alleviate iron deficiency around the world using a simple health innovation. Through this role he was awarded the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Social Entrepreneur category in 2016.
A long term advocate and activist against hunger and malnutrition Gavin is the first Canadian to receive the William J. Clinton Award for international work against hunger and is the inaugural recipient of the international Michaelle Jean Emergency Hunger Relief Award. He has also helped Lucky Iron Fish win multiple Cannes Lion awards including the Grand Prix and several Clio Design Awards including the Grand Prix in health. He has also received a Silver Innovation Award from the Edison Foundation. In 2015 Conscious Company Magazine featured Gavin as one of the seventeen 'Rising Social Entrepreneurs' of the year. In 2016 He was awarded with the Social Innovator of the Year Award from the Lewis Institute at Babson College.
As an undergraduate student Gavin signed the University of Guelph up to be the first Canadian University to become members of Universities Fighting World Hunger (UFWH) an organization of universities worldwide dedicated to promote awareness of and take action against hunger and malnutrition. He served as the coordinator of the 6th Annual UFWH Summit the first time that the conference had been held in Canada and attracted more than 450 delegates 50 speakers and raised more than $130000 to support the conference. Gavin also instituted an annual event at the University to pack food for emergency relief: Since 2011 this event has packaged over 1 million meals and Gavin has raised over $250000 to support the initiative.

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