Jamie Metzl

Jamie Metzl is one of the world’s leading technology and healthcare futurists and strategists. 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, he appears regularly on national and international media and his syndicated columns, podcasts, and interviews on AI, science, technology, and global affairs have reached hundreds of millions of people across the globe.

Metzl is the author of six books, including the newly released "Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World," the international bestseller, "Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity," and the sci-fi thrillers "Genesis Code" and "Eternal Sonata."

In 2025, he was appointed as a Commissioner of The Lancet Commission on Precision Medicine, which will over the next four years develop what is expected to be the definitive report on the future of technology-enhanced healthcare. Metzl previously served in the U.S. National Security Council, State Department, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with the United Nations in Cambodia, and on 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 co-established the WisdomTree BioRevolution Exchange Traded Fund (ticker: WDNA). 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.