Glen Weyl

E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is Founder of the RadicalxChange Foundation, Founder and Chair of the Plurality Institute and Founder and Research Lead of the Microsoft Research Plural Technology Collaboratory. He is the most frequent intellectual collaborator of Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin, virtual reality inventor Jaron Lanier and Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang. With Buterin and Puja Ohlhaver he is author of "Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul", which is one of the top 25 most downloaded papers of all time on SSRN. With Tang, he is co-author of their just-released, open-source, collaborative book "Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy", the first secular book to be endorsed by the Dalai Lama. He is also co-author with Eric Posner of Radical Markets. He is Executive Director of Fork the Government: The Audrey Tang Story and Co-Founder of the GitRules protocol. Glen was Valedictorian for his 2007 Princeton class, received his PhD in Economics in 2008, was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and taught economics and law at the University of Chicago. He has published articles in leading journals in half a dozen academic fields and in leading opinion outlets like the New York Times. He has been recognized as one of the 10 most influential people in blockchain by CoinDesk, as one of the 25 people shaping the next 25 years of technology by WIRED and as one of the 50 most influential people by Bloomberg Businessweek.