Houtan is programme director and founder of UCL Edtech Labs, an educational innovations accelerator that has programmes in numerous cities including London, Toronto, Paris and Dubai. He has helped hundreds of edtech founders grow their startups since 2016. His primary interests are in evidence-driven approaches to developing and scaling startups with huge potential for positive impact. Before working with startups, Houtan was a teacher and then worked in publishing, heading up the education and recruitment commercial teams of The Independent newspaper group