About
E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is Founder and Research Lead of the Microsoft Research Special Project the Plural Technology Collaboratory, (opens in new tab) Founder of the RadicalxChange Foundation (opens in new tab), the leading thinktank in the Web3 space, and Founder and Chair of the Plurality Institute, which coordinates an academic research network developing technology for cooperation across difference. He is also Senior Advisor to the GETTING-Plurality Research Network (opens in new tab) at Harvard University. He previously led Web3 technical strategy at Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, was Co-Chair and Technical Lead of the Harvard Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Rapid Response Task Force on Covid-19 (opens in new tab), whose recommendations were endorsed by a dozen leading civil Society organizations and the Biden Campaign (opens in new tab) and taught economics at the University of Chicago, Yale, Princeton and Harvard.
He is co-author with Eric Posner of the 2018 Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (opens in new tab), with Puja Ohlhaver and Vitalik Buterin of the 2022 paper “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul (opens in new tab)” (which is one of the 30 most downloaded papers of all time on the Social Science Research network) and is working on an open, Web3-based collaborative book project with Taiwan’s Digital Minister, Audrey Tang, Plurality: Technology for Cooperative Diversity and Democracy (opens in new tab). He is also the author of dozens of scholarly and popular articles in journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Economic Review, the Harvard Law Review, the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation and the New York Times.
He has been recognized as one of the 10 most influential people in blockchain by CoinDesk (opens in new tab), as one of the 25 people shaping the next 25 years of technology by WIRED (opens in new tab) and as one of the 50 most influential people by Bloomberg Businessweek (opens in new tab), all in 2018. He graduated as Valedictorian (opens in new tab) of his Princeton undergraduate class in 2007 and received his PhD in economics also from Princeton in 2008.