Louwai is a neurologist with a background in biomedical entrepreneurship. He studied neuroscience at Cambridge and clinical medicine at Oxford. He graduated top of his year and was the first medical student in Oxford history to be awarded merits in every exam. Louwai was the top ranking applicant to London academic medical training and was the highest scoring applicant to neurology specialist training in the UK. He was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard where he studied entrepreneurship, negotiation, and communication. Louwai also won the MIT-$100K Accelerate entrepreneurship competition by designing a neurotechnology device. He previously established an internationally recognised teaching platform for medical students in war-zones.