British economist who studies what technology does to work: research professor of Economics at King’s College London and senior researcher at Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI, after years on policy inside the UK government (Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, Downing Street Policy Unit, Cabinet Office).
Books: The Future of the Professions (2015, with his father Richard Susskind), A World Without Work (2020) and Growth: A Reckoning (2024). He gave the keynote at Exponential Day 2026.