David Carel

Biography

David Carel is the Managing Director at Blueprint Biosecurity, a nonprofit dedicated to ending airborne pandemics. David has spent the last decade building and scaling organizations that aim to solve some of society’s most pressing problems. In 2012 he co-founded Panorama Education, a Y Combinator-backed data analytics startup that currently helps tens of thousands of public schools across all 50 states answer critical questions about student experience, school climate, parent engagement, and educator professional development. David then lived in South Africa for several years where he helped create and run Funda Wande, an organization that works closely with the South African government to design, evaluate, and scale up early grade literacy and math interventions. In 2023, he joined Blueprint Biosecurity, driven by the urgent need for new pandemic prevention solutions—a need he first recognized at 19 while volunteering in a tuberculosis ward in South Africa. David received Bachelor’s degrees in Economics from Yale College and in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford.