Jamie Metzl

Jamie Metzl is one of the world’s leading experts on the implications of the intersecting AI, genetics, and biotechnology revolutions and how governments, corporations, organizations, and individuals can best ride the wave of these unprecedented transformations to build their best possible futures. A technology and healthcare futurist, he is the author of the international bestseller, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, the genetics sci-fi thrillers Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata, and other books. His highly-anticipated new book, Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World, will be published in June 2024.

Jamie is the Founder and Chair of the global social movement OneShared.World, a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, a faculty member of NextMed Health, and a Singularity University expert. In 2019, he was appointed to the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on human genome editing. A former partner in a global private equity firm, he sits on advisory boards for multiple biotechnology and other companies and helped establish and serves as Special Strategist to the WisdomTree BioRevolution Exchange Traded Fund (ticker: WDNA).

Called “the original COVID-19 whistleblower,” Jamie’s pioneering work raising common-sense questions about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and advocating for a full investigation has been featured in 60 Minutes, the New York Times, and most major media across the globe, and he was the lead witness in the first congressional hearings on pandemic origins in March 2023.

Jamie appears regularly on national and international media and his syndicated columns and other writing in science, technology, and global affairs are featured in publications worldwide. He holds a Ph.D. from Oxford, a law degree from Harvard, and an undergraduate degree from Brown, and is an avid ironman triathlete and ultramarathon runner.