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About

• Strategist with 8 years of experience driving innovation and new opportunity development for multinational companies across health, energy, automotive, logistics, food, telecommunications, software, and banking.
• Interdisciplinary skillset drawing from business strategy, design thinking, strategic foresight, design research, experience design, data engineering, ethics, and Science & Technology Studies (STS).
• Interest in constructively bridging disciplinary perspectives to facilitate better societal impacts of artificial intelligence and emerging tech.
• Loves working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Want to work together? Get in touch: chris -at- neels -dot- ca

Some writings

• Code, Culture, and Concrete: Self-Driving Vehicles and the Rules of the Road - Academic paper on autonomous vehicle governance, published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.
• Strategic Foresight in Technology Policy - Working paper offering a systematic literature review on strategic foresight methodologies within technology policy, published by UCL’s Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Public Policy (STEaPP).
• Reflections on Stakeholder Capitalism - Book review that sprawled into a broader critique of CSR, DEI, and ESG.
• The Natural Roots of Artificial Intelligence - Relating notions of intelligence to subfields of artificial intelligence.
• Neurally Networked - An essay on the political economy of DeepMind’s differentiable neural computer (DNC).
• Imagineering & Resurrections - Early thoughts on generative design.
• Rethinking the Yellowbelt - Advocacy for mid-density housing in Toronto, Canada.