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Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America and a former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, shows how rigid processes and the separation of policy from technical execution undermine public services, making user-centered delivery an essential government capability.
Jason Furman, a Harvard economist and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, connects macroeconomic theory to real government decisions through his work on labor markets, neutral corporate taxation, and the limits of industrial policy.
Henry Farrell, a political scientist, studies how states weaponize the infrastructure of globalization, turning financial networks, supply chains, and internet traffic into instruments of coercion while probing technology’s political economy and the conditions for democratic problem-solving.
Hal Varian bridged academia and technology as a UC Berkeley professor and Google’s Chief Economist, applying information economics to online ad auctions and the Varian Rule while examining how data, automation, and digital goods reshape markets.
Glen Weyl, an economist focused on institutional redesign, developed Quadratic Voting and Plurality to balance individual preferences with collective cooperation, offering mathematical approaches to making property, voting, digital identity, markets, and democracy work for more people.
George Selgin, a Cato Institute monetary economist, argues that competitive private banking can issue money more stably than central banks and advances the productivity norm, the idea that prices should naturally fall as economic efficiency improves.
Garry Kasparov, World Chess Champion for 15 years, combined deep preparation with aggressive play, faced IBM’s Deep Blue, and later wrote about strategy and opposing Vladimir Putin, linking decision-making, human-machine collaboration, and political survival.
Ed Boyden, an MIT neuroscientist who co-invented optogenetics and expansion microscopy, studies the brain’s physical and chemical mechanics to map and control circuits, treat neurological disease, understand consciousness, and explore the future of human intelligence.