About
E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is the Founder and Research Lead of Microsoft Research‘s Plural Technology Collaboratory (opens in new tab). He also co-founded and chairs the Plurality Institute (opens in new tab), founded the RadicalxChange Foundation (opens in new tab), and co-founded and co-chair the Faith, Family and Technology Network. He has collaborated closely with pioneering technologists like Audrey Tang (opens in new tab), Jaron Lanier (opens in new tab), and Vitalik Buterin (opens in new tab).
He co-authored Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (opens in new tab), named Economist Book of the Year in 2018, and co-wrote “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul (opens in new tab),” among the most downloaded papers ever on SSRN. He was also first author of the first fully open-source, democratically governed book, ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy, (opens in new tab) and executive-produced the short documentary “Good Enough Ancestor (opens in new tab).”
He has been recognized as one of blockchain’s most influential figures (opens in new tab) by CoinDesk, one of technology’s leading visionaries (opens in new tab) by WIRED and Bloomberg Businessweek (opens in new tab), and was the first technologist to receive a major award for international religious freedom (the International Religious Freedom Secretariat (opens in new tab) Peacebuilder Award). He graduated as Valedictorian (opens in new tab) from Princeton in 2007 and earned his PhD in economics in 2008.