Farid Tabarki is the founder and director of Studio Zeitgeist which conducts/coordinates research and develops projects on the local, national and European Zeitgeist. Studio Zeitgeist works on themes like radical decentralisation, radical transparency, (social) media, Europe, generations, aesthetics, social entrepreneurship and education. It has developed projects for, amongst others, MTV, Philips, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Hyves, TEDxRotterdam and GRAD, European Centre for Culture and Debate in Belgrade.

Recently Farid has co-founded the Finishing School, an education institute that primarily focuses on teaching broad knowledge, etiquette and empathic leadership with ʻhigh potentialʼ twenty & thirtysomethings as its target audience. He also co-founded Amsterdam based 'Think tank Prospect' which published in 2011 'Brave New World, a collection of 19 essays on the future of The Netherlands' of which Farid was one of the co-editors.

Earlier he was the editor-in-chief of Coolpolitics – a Dutch civic social organisation that encourages younger generations to shape and develop their role as citizens and works towards building Dutch, European and global civil society. In 2006 and 2007, Farid presented the parliamentary election edition of MTV Coolpolitics, which was broadcasted live on TMF and MTV Benelux. Currently he is the presenter of the Dutch television programme Dare to Think, from Socrates to Sartre.

In March 2012 Farid was awarded the Trendwatcher of the Year 2012 – 2013 award!