Nicholas Davis

Nicholas Davis is Industry Professor - Emerging Technology at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

With Professor Edward Santow, Nick is a founder and Co-Director of the Human Technology Institute, UTS's new initiative on building Australia's capability on ethical and responsible artificial intelligence. Nick's areas of expertise include innovation policy, technology and regulation, strategic foresight and multistakeholder collaboration processes.

From 2015-2019, Nick was Head of Society and Innovation and a member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, responsible for developing the theme of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and overseeing the development of cooperative emerging technology policy efforts around the world.

Nick is an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford's Said Business School, a Visiting Fellow at ANU in the School of Cybernetics, an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and serves on a number of boards and committees. He is also a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University's Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Previously, Nick was the World Economic Forum's Head of Europe, a Director at Oxford Investment Research and a commercial lawyer. He was also a Visiting Professor at UCL's department of science, technology, engineering and public policy (STEaPP), and an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology's Social Innovation Research Institute.