David Nordfors is a Swedish physicist, active in the field of science, innovation and society.
As the initial Director of Research Funding of the Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen) he created the Swedish research funding system for university colleges which broke down the earlier distinct borders between the universities as institutions for education and research, and the university colleges as institutions for education only.[1].
Nordfors is the founding Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication at Stanford University. He is an adjunct professor at IDC Herzliya, Israel, a visiting professor at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Tech Monterrey) in Mexico, and visiting professor at the Deutsche Welle DW-Academy. He was Special Advisor to the Director General at VINNOVA, the Swedish National Agency for Innovation Systems.
David Nordfors is on the Advisory Board of the Center for International Media Ethics.
He was one of the hundred experts of the World Economic Forum Innovation 100.[2], and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Media.
Nordfors headed the first symposium about the Internet in the Swedish Parliament, in 1994. He coined the concepts of Innovation Journalism, Attention Work and Innovation Communication Systems.
He has a Ph.D. in Quantum Molecular Physics from Uppsala University, Sweden, where he was appointed as doctoral student by Nobel Laureate Kai Siegbahn.