Eric Weinstein

Eric Weinstein is an American mathematician and economist. He earned his Ph.D in mathematical physics from Harvard University in 1992. He's a research fellow at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University, and a managing director of Thiel Capital in San Francisco. He speaks and publishes on a variety of topics including, gauge theory, immigration, the market for elite labor, management of financial risk and the incentivizing of risk taking in science. As a public speaker, he has frequently championed scientific risk taking, the importance of self-taught scientists in their role of connecting fields, and the need to limit academic credentialism and rent-seeking behavior from hindering foundational breakthroughs in basic research. He was the co-leader of the Geometric Marginalism project at Institute of New Economic Thinking.