Brussels Forum Session: Tech Wars: Who Will Win the Innovation Race?
Frank H. McCourt, Jr., is a civic entrepreneur and the executive chairman of McCourt Global, a private family company with work across the real estate and infrastructure, sports, technology, and media industries. Frank is proud to extend his family’s 132-year legacy of merging community and social impact with financial results.
He is the founder of Project Liberty, a $500-million initiative building solutions to help people reclaim a voice, a choice, and a stake in a better internet. In 2024, Project Liberty announced The People’s Bid for TikTok, a grassroots effort to purchase and redesign the platform, giving individuals more control over their online experience, alongside notable partners such as Alexis Ohanian, Kevin O’Leary, Tim Berners-Lee, Jonathan Haidt, and countless supporters nationwide.
As an alumnus of Georgetown University, McCourt has served on the Board of Directors for many years and, in 2013, made a $100-million founding investment to create Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. He expanded on this in 2021 with a $100-million investment to catalyze an inclusive pipeline of public policy leaders and put the school on a path to becoming tuition-free.
Frank owns the French football club Olympique de Marseille and formerly owned the Los Angeles Dodgers. Frank has built upon the McCourt family’s construction background with initiatives from Boston’s Seaport to large, mixed-use projects in Dallas, London, Phoenix, New York City, and elsewhere.
Frank is also the author of “Our Biggest Fight”.