The Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Business, Gresham College Research Professor, King’s College London Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford University
Dr. Daniel Susskind is a bestselling author. He is the Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College. He is also a Research Professor at King’s College London, and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University, a Digital Fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and an Associate Member of the Economics Department at Oxford University. His work explores the impact of technology, particularly AI, on work and society, and he is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling books The Future of the Professions and A World Without Work. His latest book, Growth: A Reckoning, is a lucid, thought-provoking and brilliantly researched guide to one of our greatest challenges: the tension between the promise and the price of economic growth. Growth is listed on the Financial Times/Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024 Short List and is one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2024. His TED Talk, debunking three common myths about the future of work, has been viewed over 1.6 million times. Previously, he worked in various roles in the British Government: as a policy advisor in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, a policy analyst in the Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street, and as a senior policy adviser in the Cabinet Office. Please give a warm welcome to Dr. Daniel Susskind.