Biography

I am Senior Partner with the World Legal Summit and Senior Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation. My professional work explores research and practice on technological innovation, public policy, and geopolitics. I have a particular interest in multipolarity and the regulatory challenges shaping advanced technologies. I have written or edited eight books across a range of subjects and I have worked as an advisor to government in Latin America and North America. I write for Forbes, The Brookings Institution, Singularity Hub, Futurism, and The National Post, and have been invited to speak on various news programs including DW and TRT World. I have given talks on my work at a number of universities and research centers including Harvard University, Stanford University, the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Global Policy Solutions, the University of Toronto, the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, the Canadian Department of National Defence, UC Santa Cruz, and Microsoft Research. I have a doctorate from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and live in Toronto, Canada. In addition to speaking and writing, I am also a film producer and screenwriter with a particular interest in science fiction. I am currently developing two sci-fi book series overlapping AI and the future of human civilization. The first series is called “Accession” and explores questions of technological excess and the dangers of alien contact. The second series is called “Triumvirum” and imagines the future of Earth as a near-utopia caught between the instinct for power and a religious drive for consciousness evolution.