Jamie Metzl
Biography
Jamie Metzl is a leading technology futurist and geopolitical
expert and Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council. He previously served
in the U.S. National Security Council, State Department, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, as Executive Vice President of the Asia Society,
and as a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations in Cambodia. Jamie
is a faculty member for Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine
track and was Chief Strategy Officer for a Boston-based biotechnology
company.
Jamie appears regularly on national and international media and his
syndicated columns and writing on Asian affairs, genetics, virtual
reality, and other topics are featured regularly in publications around
the world. He is the author of a history of the Cambodian genocide, the
historical novel The Depths of the Sea, and the genetics thrillers
Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata. His non-fiction book Hacking Darwin:
Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity will be published by
Sourcebooks in April 2019.
A founder and Co-Chair of the national security organization Partnership
for a Secure America, Jamie is a board member of the International
Center for Transitional Justice and the American University in Mongolia,
and a member of the Advisory Board of the Brandeis International Center
for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life. He is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations is a former White House Fellow and Aspen Institute
Crown Fellow. Jamie holds a Ph.D. in Asian history from Oxford, a JD
from Harvard Law School, and is a graduate of Brown University
Declaration of interests
Jamie Metzl has spoken publicly on the subject area of the human genetics revolution, these engagements have included receiving speaker fees from a variety of organisations from companies through to consultancies. He has also written on the subject and is on the advisory board of TMRW Life Science.