David Shrier is a Professor of Practice (AI & Innovation) at Imperial College London (#2 university in the world) and visiting scholar with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is leading new Trusted AI efforts across Imperial, Oxford, MIT and Edinburgh comprising 3,000+ AI researchers. He also served on the EU Parliament advisory committee involved with formulating the EU AI Act. He has advised over 100 governments on technology policy. As a growth & innovation executive, he developed $10 billion of technology opportunities for public and private companies ranging from WTW to UBS and took a company public on the NASDAQ. David Shrier revolutionized online learning at top universities, leading to US$ 1billion of financial support for MIT, Harvard and Oxford. He leveraged royalty stream from these classes into successful angel portfolio with realized MOIC of11.5x (64% drawn from former students or academic collaborators). 22,000+ former MIT & Oxford students in more than 150 countries focused on building new fintech and AI companies. His 9th book in 9 years, Welcome to AI: A Human Guide to Artificial Intelligence, was published by Harvard Business Publishing and Little Brown in 2024.