Jamie Metzl

Jamie Metzl is one of the world’s leading technology and healthcare futurists. He 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. His new book, "Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World," was released on June 11. Metzl is the author of the bestseller "Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity," the acclaimed science fiction novels "Genesis Code" and "Eternal Sonata," and other books. He appears regularly on national and international media, and his syndicated columns and other writings on science, technology, and global affairs are featured in publications across the globe.

In 2019, Metzl was appointed to the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on human genome editing. Called “the original COVID-19 whistleblower,” Metzl’s pioneering work raising common-sense questions about the origins of COVID-19 and advocating for a full investigation has been featured in 60 Minutes, the New York Times, and most major media around the world. He was the lead witness in the first congressional hearings on pandemic origins in March 2023.

A former partner in a global private equity firm, he sits on advisory boards for multiple biotechnology and other companies and helped establish the WisdomTree BioRevolution Exchange Traded Fund (ticker: WDNA). He previously served in the U.S. National Security Council, State Department, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee and with the United Nations in Cambodia. Metzl 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.