Marco Steinberg

Marco Steinberg is Founder and CEO of Snowcone & Haystack, a Helsinki based strategic design practice focused on helping governments innovate. He has worked with local and central governments across the world on issues of development, sustainability, and transformation. From 2008-2013 Marco was Director of Strategic Design at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, where he established the fund’s strategic design capability. He launched a portfolio of public governance innovation initiatives including Helsinki Design Lab (www.helsinkidesignlab.org) and Low2No (www.low2no.org). From 1999-2009 Marco served as Associate Professor at the Harvard Design School where he led the Stroke Pathways Project, a system redesign approach to health delivery in the US. He is author of numerous publications on design and innovation. He holds degrees from Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard University. In 2020 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Delft Technical University (TU Delft).