Jamie Metzl

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Metzl at the Dubai Future Forum (2024)

Jamie Frederic Metzl (born July 1, 1968)[1] is an American technology and healthcare futurist.[2] He is a founder and Chair of the global social movement OneShared.World, a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council,[3] a faculty member of NextMed Health,[4] and a Singularity University expert. [5]

Metzl has been appeared on national and international media and his syndicated columns,[6] podcast conversations with Joe Rogan,[7] Lex Fridman, and others, and interviews on AI, science, technology, and global affairs. He is the author of six books, including the newly-released Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World, the international bestseller, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, and the sci-fi thrillers Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata. [8]

Early life and education

Metzl was born to Marilyn Metzl, a clinical psychologist, and Kurt Metzl, a pediatrician.

Metzl was born in Kansas City, Missouri.[9] He is the third of four sons of Kurt and Marilyn Metzl.[10] His father, an Austrian-born Holocaust survivor and pediatrician,[11] passed away from cancer in April 2025.[12] His mother, originally from Queens, New York, practiced for many decades as a psychologist and psychoanalyst in Kansas City. [13]

He attended high school at The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri.[14] He graduated from Brown University.[15] He holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University (1994),[16] and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1997.[17] He was a White House Fellow.[18]

Career

In 1988, at the age of 19, Metzl volunteered as a teacher and teacher trainer for Cambodian, Hmong, and Vietnamese refugees in the Panat Nikhom refugee camp in Chonburi, Thailand, an experience that had a profound impact on his life. [19] From 2001 to 2003, he took a leave of absence from his Ph.D. program at Oxford University, where he was writing his dissertation on the international community’s failure to prevent the Cambodian genocide, to serve as a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia.[20] There, he helped establish a nation-wide human rights investigation and monitoring unit. After completing his Ph.D. program in a record two years of study, he then attended Harvard Law School, where he was active in both the human rights and technology communities.[21] While a student at Harvard Law School, he began publishing pieces in Foreign Affairs and the American Journal of International Law on how strategic information campaigns could and should have been used to help prevent the genocide in Rwanda and other crises. [22] Following his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1997, he served for six years in the United States government where he led efforts develop America’s strategic engagement with newly development information technologies, including the early-stage internet.[23]

From 1997 to 1999, he was Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs in the US National Security Council, serving under National Security Advisor Sandy Berger and Senior Directors Richard Clarke and Eric Schwartz, where he became deeply engaged with issues relating to emerging capabilities in machine learning, genetics, and biotechnology, which has subsequently been the topic of four of his books and other work. [24] In the Clinton administration, he was the primary drafter of Presidential Decision Directive 68 on International Public Information[25][26][27]

In 2019, Metzl was appointed to the WHO advisory committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing.[28][29]

Metzl has been a vocal proponent of the COVID-19 lab leak theory.[30] In March 2023, he testified at the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic invited by US House Republicans.[31]

He is the author of the 2024 book Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World.[32][33]

Personal life

He is a marathon runner and triathlete.[34][35][36]

For the Brown Alumni Magazine, Metzl wrote a 2010 article describing the "narcissistic pleasure" he derived from having a Wikipedia page and how he asked an assistant to "occasionally add a link to the site".[37]

Profiles

Works

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  • Jamie Frederic Metzl (2014) Genesis Code, Arcade. Template:ISBN[38]
  • Jamie Frederic Metzl (2016) Eternal Sonata, Arcade. ASIN: B01HDVCR4U
  • Jamie Frederic Metzl (April 2019) Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, Sourcebooks. Template:ISBN[39]

References

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  1. ↑ Cleary, Tom. "Jamie Metzl: 25 Questions Answered", Heavy.com. Accessed June 25, 2023. "Jamie Metzl was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 1, 1968."
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  9. ↑ Haaratz: "Hurricane Sandy Sweeps Away N.Y. Marathon, Makes Way for Tikkun Olam" by Danna Harman November 5, 2012
  10. ↑ Beyond the Bris: "Delving into Genesis Code: An Interview With Jamie Metzl" retrieved November 4, 2017
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  14. ↑ Staff. "World-renowned Expert on Asia to Give Free Lecture at The Barstow School", The Barstow School, October 3, 2011. Accessed November 1, 2011.
  15. ↑ Staff. "Learn how Asia is changing the world", Vail Daily, January 2, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2011.
  16. ↑ British Library ETHOS PhD database
  17. ↑ Campbell, Matt; and Kraske, Steve. "Metzl's ambition praised, criticized", Kansas City Star, June 26, 2004. Accessed November 1, 2011.
  18. ↑ Matthews, Mark via The Baltimore Sun. Darkyears for Cambodia and for U.S. too", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 18, 1998. Accessed November 1, 2011.
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  24. ↑ Staff. Records on Presidential Decision Directive-68 (PDD-68)– Concerning International Public Information (IPI) Template:Webarchive, Clinton Presidential Center, last modified April 27, 2007. Accessed November 3, 2011.
  25. ↑ Staff. "Information-control plan aimed at U.S., insider says: International agency to be used for `spinning the news'", The Washington Times, July 29, 1999. Accessed November 1, 2011.
  26. ↑ Staff. "U.S. Spending Against Terror Is Too Low, Report Warns", The New York Times, June 29, 2003. Accessed November 1, 2011.
  27. ↑ Curry, Dan. "Cleaver outlasts Metzl in 5th District race" Template:Webarchive, The Examiner (Independence), August 4, 2004. Accessed January 5, 2008. "Cleaver defeated Metzl 72,530 (59.9 percent) to 48,531 (40.1 percent)."
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  30. ↑ Stolberg, Sheryl Gay; and Mueller, Benjamin. "Lab Leak or Not? How Politics Shaped the Battle Over Covid’s Origin", The New York Times, March 19, 2023. Accessed June 25, 2023.
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  34. ↑ Basheer, K.P.M. "Putting creative minds together", The Hindu, March 14, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2011.
  35. ↑ "Tête-à-tête: America’s role in a fast-changing Asia", Singapore Institute of International Affairs, May 18, 2010. Accessed November 1, 2011.
  36. ↑ Shetty, Vinita A. "Marathon man", Daily News and Analysis Mumbai, May 2, 2010. Accessed November 1, 2011.
  37. ↑ [Metzl, Jamie. "Judgment at Wikipedia", Brown Alumni Magazine, March–April 2010, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 7, 2010. Accessed February 1, 2022.
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