About us

Erik Brynjolfsson is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He also is the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Professor by Courtesy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Department of Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Ajay Agrawal is the Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management where he conducts research on the economics of artificial intelligence, science policy, entrepreneurial finance, and geography of innovation. Professor Agrawal is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA, co-founder of The Next 36 and NextAI, and founder of the Creative Destruction Lab.

Natalie Foster is a leading architect of the movement to build an inclusive and resilient economy. She’s President and co-founder of Economic Security Project, a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative, and the author of “The Guarantee: Inside the Fight For America’s Next Economy.”

Katya Klinova is the Head of AI for Humanitarian and Development Action at the UN Secretary-General's Innovation Lab and the founder of the Partnership on AI's AI and Shared Prosperity Initiative. She works on building enabling infrastructure for accelerating beneficial AI the market is failing to deliver.

Former founding Executive Director of the Centre for Public Impact, ex-UK civil servant and McKinsey consultant. Adrian is a globally recognised strategist working at the intersection of public policy and AI.

Stanford-trained technologist and program lead at the Future of Life Institute, where she oversees the development of global frameworks for AI-driven wealth capture and redistribution. Anna brings deep expertise in scenario planning and worldbuilding for complex futures.

Former AI Governance Lead for Convergence Analysis and architect of the AGI Social Contract program. A Princeton-trained researcher previously at Google X & an early-stage team member at Alchemy (now valued at $10 billion).

Co-founder of staatslabor and former public sector strategist at BCG. Danny is a leading voice on agile governance and digital-era statecraft, with experience advising governments across three continents.

Specialist in global AI governance and public policy (Harvard Kennedy School) and former Director at The Future Society, having shaped National AI Strategies across four African governments with GIZ and advised multilateral institutions including the OECD, UN and World Bank.

Louise brings experience driving systems-level change at multiple AI civil society non profits backed by Omidiyar, Mozilla, Schmidt Futures, Oak Foundation, and more. She contributes to scaling Windfall’s mission with her expertise in strategy, communications and executive hiring.