E. Glen Weyl
E. Glen Weyl is the Founder and Research Lead of Microsoft Research’s Plural Technology Collaboratory and the Technology for Religious Empowerment initiative. He also founded and chairs the Plurality Institute, serves as a Founder of the RadicalxChange Foundation, and acts as Senior Advisor to the GETTING-Plurality Research Network at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center.
He co-authored with Eric Posner the book “Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society,” which was named Economist Book of the Year. His collaborative paper with Vitalik Buterin and Puja Ohlhaver, “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul,” ranks among the most downloaded publications on SSRN. Alongside digital democracy advocate Audrey Tang and global open-source contributors, Weyl co-created the book, “Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy,” and served as Executive Producer of the award-winning documentary short, Good Enough Ancestor. His writing has appeared in journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Economic Review, Harvard Law Review, and Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, and other publications like the New York Times.
In recognition of his groundbreaking contributions, Weyl was named one of the 10 most influential figures in blockchain by CoinDesk, one of the 25 people shaping the next quarter-century of technology by WIRED, and one of the 50 most influential people globally by Bloomberg Businessweek. He graduated as valedictorian and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.
