Daniel Susskind, D.Phil.

Daniel Susskind, D.Phil., is a writer and economist who explores the impact of technology, and particularly AI, on work and society. He is the Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College, London. He is also a digital fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, a senior research associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University, and an associate member of the economics department at Oxford. He serves on the UK government’s Expert Panel on AI and the Future of Work.

Susskind is the author of Growth: A Reckoning, chosen by President Obama as one of his favorite books of 2024 and a runner-up for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year, and A World Without Work, which the New York Times called “required reading for any potential presidential candidate thinking about the economy of the future” and which was also a runner-up for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year. He is coauthor of The Future of the Professions, and his TED Talk on the future of work has been viewed more than 1.7 million times. His new book is What Should My Children Do? A Human’s Guide to the Age of AI.

Previously, Susskind worked in the British government, in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, the Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street, and the Cabinet Office. He was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University.