Glen Weyl
Economist and Social Technologist
Glen is Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer Political Economist and Social Technologist (OCTOPEST), where I advise Microsoft’s senior leaders on macroeconomics, geopolitics and the future of technology. I report to Fatima Kardar under Kevin Scott (our CTO) and work closely with Jaron Lanier and Lila Tretikov.
Glen uses ideas from political economy to develop social technology for widely-shared prosperity and diverse cooperation. These ideas have inspired a social movement, RadicalxChange, that convenes activists, artists, entrepreneurs and researchers using information technology and market mechanisms to create a richer and more equal society. He helps catalyze this collaboration as Founder and Chair of the RadicalxChange Foundation. Through that work he became co-chair and technical lead of the Harvard Edmond J. Safra Center on Ethics Rapid Response Task Force on Covid-19, the recommendations from which were endorsed by a dozen leading civil society organizations and the Biden campaign, among others. He is currently visiting and teaching at the Safra Center jointly with its chair and his co-chair on the Task Force, Danielle Allen, and Marc Stears.