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David Shrier

Entrepreneur, futurist, and Associate Fellow at Said Business School

Professor of Practice at Imperial College London

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  • Said Business School
  • Imperial College London

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Said Business School

David is a globally recognized authority on financial innovation, and created and leads the SBS online programmes Oxford Fintech and Oxford Blockchain Strategy.

David is the founder & CEO of Distilled Analytics, a data/machine learning fintech derived from MIT research that applies multi scale precision analytics to predict human behavior, and Chairman of Riff Learning, an AI-enabled collaboration environment also spun out of MIT. He is also Lecturer & Futurist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's famed MIT Media Lab, where he previously was Managing Director, Connection Science and New Ventures Officer, MIT Sloan.

David counsels the Government of Dubai on blockchain and digital identity, and Millennium Advisors, a middle market credit liquidity provider, on financial technology trends.

David specializes in helping established organizations to build new revenue, having developed $8.5 billion of growth opportunities with C-suite executives for Dun & Bradstreet, Wolters Kluwer, Ernst & Young, GE, The Walt Disney Company, AOL Verizon, and Starwood, as well as leading private equity and VC funds. He has led a number of private equity and venture capital-backed companies as CEO, CFO or COO.

He is on the advisory board of WorldQuant University, a program offering a totally-free, accredited, online Master’s degree in financial engineering, and is a member of the FinTech Industry Commitee for FINRA, the securities industry's self-regulatory body. David recently advised the European Commission on commercializing innovation with a focus on digital technology.

He originated and leads the "Oxford Fintech" and "Oxford Blockchain Strategy" classes for the Said Business School, and teaches courses and workshops for MIT such as “Future Commerce”, “Data Academy”, “Inspiring Change”, and “Big Data and Social Analytics”.

David and MIT Professor Alex Pentland have published books including Frontiers of Financial Technology, (with Howie Shrobe) New Solutions for Cybersecurity, and (with Thomas Hardjono) Trust::Data. He also co-edits, together with Professor Pentland, the Connection Science imprint of MIT Press.

David Shrier was granted an Sc.B. from Brown University in Biology and Theatre, and worked professionally as a dramaturg and director after college.

Imperial College London

David Shrier is Professor of Practice, AI & Innovation with Imperial College Business School, and leads both the TRanslational AI Lab (TRAIL), applying trusted AI solutions to problems of business, government, and society, and the Institutional Digital Assets Project, helping mainstream organisations understand and adopt digital assets such as crypto and other DLT derivatives. David is founding faculty of Imperial's Centre for Digital Transformation. His academic teaching focus is on using technology innovation to drive change at scale.

David is a globally recognized thought leader in technology and educational innovation, parallel entrepreneur, and author. Collaborating with Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland at MIT, David revolutionised the university executive short course model for online learning. The portfolio of digital classes he created originally for MIT and University of Oxford have engaged nearly 20,000 innovators in over 150 countries. David is personally responsible for spearheading the three most profitable online classes in history.

David's government advisory portfolio includes present work with HMRC, FINRA, the European Parliament's Center for Artificial Intelligence (C4AI) under the auspices of the STOA committee, and the European Commission's High Level Group on citizenship innovation. His prior advisory work included helping the Commonwealth Secretariat develop the Commonwealth Fintech Toolkit.

He also is active with industry in the practice of innovation science having developed $9 billion of growth initiatives for Fortune 1000 companies, private equity, and venture capital. David has spun four AI-enabled companies out of MIT, and is presently CEO of Esme Learning Solutions and separately CEO of blank-cheque company Adit EdTech (NYSE: ADEX). His advisory firm Visionary Future works with corporate and government clients applying technology to drive change at scale. He also serves on the boards of private companies including Copper Technologies (UK) Ltd.

David has published six books since 2016 focused on technology disruption, the four most recent of which with MIT Press or Little Brown. His latest book, Augmenting Your Career: How to Win at Work in the Age of AI was released by Little Brown in June 2021, and his next book, Global Fintech will be published by MIT Press in 2022.

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