Jason Gaverick Matheny
Jason Gaverick Matheny is a research associate with the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, where his work focuses on technology forecasting and risk assessment - particularly of global catastrophic risks and existential risks.[1]
He previously worked for the World Bank, the Center for Biosecurity, the Center for Global Development, and on national security projects for the US government. He is a Sommer Scholar and PhD candidate in Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University. He holds an MPH from Johns Hopkins, an MBA from Duke University, and a BA from the University of Chicago.
He has published on biotechnology, neurotechnology, risk analysis demography, health economics, and bioethics. He's the cofounder of New Harvest, which supports the development of new agricultural biotechnologies. His work was called one of the "ideas of the year" by The New York Times and has been featured in The Washington Post, Nature, The Economist, Scientific American, New Scientist, NOVA, and Wired, among others.
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- ^ Jason G. Matheny (2007): "Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction", Risk Analysis 27(5): 1335-1344. http://jgmatheny.org/matheny_extinction_risk.htm
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