Azeem Azhar

Azeem Azhar (born 1972) is a British technology entrepreneur and author. He founded the research group, Exponential View, and web technology company, PeerIndex.

Azhar wrote The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society, and hosts the podcast Exponential View, distributed by Harvard Business Review, and the Bloomberg Originals television show and podcast Exponentially with Azeem Azhar. renewable energy, and tech more broadly.

Early life and education Azhar was born in 1972. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, Oxford University.

Career In the 1990s, Azhar became a journalist, He later became the business correspondent for The Economist. From 1997 to 1999, he was also a strategy manager for the BBC as well as launched the BBC Online. In 2005, he became head of innovation for Reuters.

In 2015, Azhar founded Exponential View, a research group that creates newsletters about AI and technological transformations. It was described by the Boise State Public Radio as the "leading newsletter and podcast on the impact of technology on our future economy and society".

Azhar is the host of the Bloomberg Originals television show and podcast Exponentially with Azeem Azhar.

Azhar is a member of the World Economic Forum's Expert Network and co-chair of its Global Future Council on the Future of Complex Risks. He is also an executive fellow at Harvard Business School, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is also a Digital Fellow at Stanford University's Digital Economy Lab.

Publications The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society (2021).

Accolades Azhar was named to the Vox 2023 Future Perfect 50 list.