American · b. 1968
Jamie Metzl is an American futurist, author and policy adviser who writes and speaks about genetics, biotechnology and artificial intelligence. He served on the National Security Council and in the State Department during the Clinton administration, and worked on Senate foreign policy staff. He later became a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a member of the World Health Organization's expert advisory committee on human genome editing. He has also written a novel and a memoir, and he founded the OneShared.World initiative. His book Hacking Darwin (2019) examined how genetic engineering could change human reproduction and evolution. His later work, Superconvergence (2024), argues that genetics, biotech and AI are merging into one force and proposes a new international agency to regulate them. Metzl holds a PhD in Southeast Asian history from Oxford and a law degree from Harvard. His standing comes from policy work and public commentary rather than laboratory research.