Carl Benedikt Frey, Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute, is the founder and Director of the Future of Work Programme at the Oxford Martin School. He has been an advisor and consultant to several international organisations, think tanks, governments, and businesses. Today, he can be booked to speak at a range of corporate events and is qualified to speak about technology and its many consequences, AI, and the future of cities.
Having studied economics, history and management at Lund University and obtaining his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Carl founded the Future of Work programme at the Oxford Martin School and was also an Economics Associate of Nuffield College and Senior Fellow at the Institute of New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford. Carl also spent two years teaching in the Department of Economic History at Lund University. He was also a part of World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the New Economic Agenda and the Bretton Woods Committee in 2019. His knowledge in economics is helpful when he consults at organisations such as G20, the United Nations, the OECD, the European Commission and countless Fortune 500 companies.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Carl is also the co-author of a paper called The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerization, which has been cited over 12,000 times. The methodology of this paper has also been used by some of the most prominent leaders and economic institutions such President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors and the World Bank. Carl was a member of the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) that aims for AI to be developed and used responsibly. Carl’s expertise on AI and technology comes in handy when he contributes op-ed pieces to major publications like the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Scientific American, and the Wall Street Journal.
A recipient of Princeton University’s Richard A. Lester Prize for his newest book, The Technology Trap: Capital, Labour and Power in the Age of Automation, Carl’s work in world of academics has been featured in over 100 media outlets including The Economist, New York Times, Time Magazine, the New Yorker, Le Monde and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Carl is no stranger to speaking to the world about his ideas, having spoken on several international broadcast media channels like CNN, BBC, PBS News Hour, Sky News and Al Jazeera. If you are looking for a speaker who can educate the audience about AI, the future of cities or the history of technology with great ease, Carl Benedikt Frey is the perfect choice for your event.
