Azeem Azhar

Career

Before starting Exponential View, Azhar was a correspondent at The Economist, held executive roles at Thomson Reuters and Schibsted, and founded the company PeerIndex. Azhar's About page also lists past advisory roles at McKinsey, Accenture and PwC, work as a venture partner at Kindred Capital, and a seat as a consumer board member at Ofcom.²

Azhar founded Exponential View in 2015 and has led it since. Since 2022 Azhar has been a visiting fellow at Oxford University, and since 2023 an executive fellow at Harvard Business School and co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council on Complex Risk.²

Channel and publications

Exponential View is a weekly publication in which Azhar analyzes developments in AI and other fast-moving technologies, with a focus on how they will shape the next three to five years. Alongside the Sunday newsletter it publishes essays by Azhar, a podcast and a YouTube channel, and its recurring themes include AI scaling, the energy transition and falling costs of solar power and batteries.¹³

Azhar is the author of The Exponential Age, which looks at the gap between accelerating technologies such as AI, automation and big data and the ability to deal with their effects on business, politics and society. Azhar also gives keynote talks on generative AI and on the past and future of what Azhar calls the Exponential Age.⁴³

Work and contributions

• Exponential View Show, channel or publication

  Writes weekly analysis of developments in AI and exponential technologies for the Exponential View newsletter, alongside its podcast.¹³

• The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society Show, channel or publication

  Author of the book, which examines the widening gap between fast-moving technologies such as AI, automation and big data and society's ability to deal with their effects.⁴

Timeline

1. 2011Won the Grand Prix for best startup at the Europas awards, listed on Azhar's About page.²
2. 2015Founded Exponential View, a weekly newsletter on AI and exponential technologies.²¹
3. 2021Published The Exponential Age, named a Financial Times Best Book of the Year.⁴
4. 2022Became a visiting fellow at Oxford University.²
5. 2023Became an executive fellow at Harvard Business School and co-chair of a World Economic Forum Global Futures Council.²

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Correspondent, The Economist²
• Founder, PeerIndex²

Honors and recognition

• Financial Times Best Book of the Year (The Exponential Age) · Financial Times, 2021⁴
• Thinkers50 Radar · Thinkers50, 2022²
• Honorary Doctorate · Hult International Business School, 2023²
• Grand Prix, Best Startup · The Europas, 2011²

Where they work

• Exponential View 1 person in the wiki
• Global Futures Council on Complex Risk 1 person in the wiki
• Harvard University 8 people in the wiki

Related people

• Chuck KeithTeaching and writing
• Nathan LambertTeaching and writing
• Tomasz TunguzTeaching and writing
• Josh GordonTeaching and writing
• Christopher ManningTeaching and writing
• Sabrina RamonovTeaching and writing
• Hamel HusainTeaching and writing
• Richard SuttonTeaching and writing
• Nathan LabenzTeaching and writing
• Simon WillisonTeaching and writing