Noubar Afeyan (Western Armenian: Նուպար Աֆէեան; born in 1962) is an American-Canadian entrepreneur, inventor, and philanthropist.

[6][7] Talking about his background, Afeyan said: "One of the only unfortunate advantages Armenians have had by having gone through a genocide and having spread around the world is that we do have an experience of escaping and of immigrating and of constantly restarting.

[1][10] Afeyan is the founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, a venture capital company focused on biotechnology, in 2000.

[1] Afeyan sits on the boards of the MIT Corporation, the Boston Symphony Orchestra,[24][25][17] and the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU).

[17][2] Afeyan has worked closely with other prominent Armenian diaspora philanthropists, most notably Ruben Vardanyan on projects related to Armenia.

Afeyan had partnered with Vardanyan to establish Initiatives for Development of Armenia (IDeA),[26] which according to the Armenian government, has between 2007 and 2017 implemented different projects with a total cost of $550 million.

[28] In 2005 Afeyan and Vardanyan met with Armenian president Robert Kocharyan to present the key directions of the project.

[29] In 2008 Afeyan, Vardanyan and others co-founded the National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia, a private-public partnership dedicated to promoting economic development in the country.

[33] It includes The 100 Lives initiative, which celebrates survivors and rescuers of the Armenian genocide,[17][2] and the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, an annual award given to an individual (and an affiliated organization) who has faced personal risk to enable others to survive since 2016.

"[38] After the Velvet Revolution of 2018, Afeyan congratulated Nikol Pashinyan on being elected Armenia's prime minister and wrote that "With this turning point, we have an opportunity to bring together the skills and enthusiasm of Armenians across the globe who are able to contribute to accelerating Armenia’s and Artsakh’s growth and prosperity.

When world powers step in to stop unfolding atrocities, it sends a signal to aggressors that annexing land or destroying a people and culture will not be tolerated," he wrote.