Ajay Agrawal is the Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Agrawal is founder of the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a not-for-profit program supporting early-stage, science-based companies, with sites across Canada and at partner institutions worldwide including Imperial College London, HEC Paris, and Bocconi University. He is also co-founder of Next Canada, which runs programs training young entrepreneurs, and co-chairs two annual conferences on machine intelligence: Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence and the NBER Economics of Artificial Intelligence Conference.
He is co-author of the best-selling book "Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence," named one of the top ten technology books of 2018 by Forbes.
Professor Agrawal has advised the U.S. and Japanese governments on science and technology policy, and serves on the Advisory Board of Carnegie Mellon's Block Center for Technology and Society. He is a Member of the Order of Canada and was named to the Globe and Mail's Power 50 list.
