Grant Shonkwiler is a fellow for the Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center. A veteran industry expert, Shonkwiler landed his first position in the video game industry immediately after graduation, when he joined AMI Entertainment/MegaTouch Games as a game programmer and quickly moved up to lead designer. After three years with the company, he had shipped well over fifty titles. 
 
In 2011, Shonkwiler joined id Software, first as a technical producer on the multiplayer team for Rage, and then as a producer on the AI, combat, character and narrative teams for the Doom franchise. He next went on to Epic Games, contributing to the Fortnite and Battle Breakers projects. 
 
Today, Shonkwiler has his own production consulting company, Shonkventures, and has founded the Game Developers Foundation, helping those interested in getting into the video game industry. He is also a Full Sail graduate and a 2017 Full Sail University Hall of Fame inductee.