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Cory Doctorow is a journalist, activist, and science fiction writer who coined “enshittification” to describe online platforms’ decay, arguing for interoperability as a counterweight to digital monopolies, copyright overreach, technological centralization, and concentrated corporate power.
Colin Camerer is an economist who helped establish behavioral game theory and neuroeconomics, using fMRI and behavioral experiments to reveal the cognitive limits, social preferences, and biological mechanisms that standard models miss when people navigate strategy, risk, and markets.
Campbell Harvey is a Duke finance professor known for establishing the inverted yield curve as a reliable recession indicator and for challenging flawed statistics in quantitative investing, while examining inflation hedges, false discoveries in asset pricing, and decentralized finance.
Bill McNabb led Vanguard through the financial crisis while expanding low-cost index funds, urging corporate boards to look beyond quarterly earnings and concentrate on talent, strategy, and risk as the foundations of long-term shareholder value.
Bill Browder built Russia’s largest foreign investment fund before his expulsion by the Kremlin, then left finance after lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was murdered in prison to champion the Magnitsky Act and hold human rights abusers and authoritarian regimes financially accountable.
Antti Ilmanen is an AQR Capital Management investment researcher focused on long-term allocation, separating forward-looking expectations from historical noise, questioning private equity’s illiquidity premium, and stressing diversification and discipline when traditional assets offer low yields.
Annie Lamont is an Oak HC/FT co-founder and venture capitalist focused on healthcare and fintech, applying a strict funding test: healthcare startups must improve patient outcomes while reducing system costs, even as founders navigate incumbents and American medicine’s economics.
Andrew Lo is an MIT Sloan economist studying how biology and evolution shape investor behavior, with the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis explaining why standard models fail during panics and booms while using financial engineering to fund cancer research.