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John Bridgeland

John Bridgeland is executive chairman of the Office of American Possibilities, a civic moonshot factory that taps the entrepreneurial talent of Americans to solve public challenges together across divides. In that capacity, he is executive chairman and CEO of More Perfect, a bipartisan initiative to protect and renew American democracy by advancing five foundational Democracy Goals; co-founder and CEO of the COVID Collaborative; and co-founder and co-chairman of Welcome.US, which engages Americans in supporting the resettlement of Afghan, Ukrainian and other refugees. Bridgeland is also founding CEO and vice chairman of Malaria No More, which was launched at the White House Summit on Malaria, which he co-led. Bridgeland graduated with honors in government from Harvard University; studied at the College of Europe and Université Libre de Bruxelles as a Rotary International Fellow; and received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. He lives with his wife in McLean, Virginia, and has three children.