- October 28, 2022
EPISODE #
#41 Dr. Noah Raford on the future of gaming, identity, culture and governance
About this episode
Dr. Noah Raford is a globally respected futurist and the Director of the Oxford Program on Peace, Policy and the Metaverse. He was previously a founding executive and Futurist-in-Chief at the Dubai Future Foundation and a senior advisor in the UAE Prime Minister’s Office.
We discuss the evolution of gaming and why we should be paying attention as our lives become increasingly intertwined in these sophisticated spaces where we spend time, socialise, create economic value and culture.
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Dr. Noah Raford
Noah Raford is currently the Director of the Oxford Programme on Peace, Policy and the Metaverse, a research institute focused on mental health, social movements and video games, and Chairman of the DNR Group, a leading network of advisors, futurists and strategy directors.
Previously he was a founding executive of the Dubai Future Foundation and the Museum of the Future, where he served as its Futurist-in-Chief, Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Global Affairs for over 6 years, as well as a senior advisor in the UAE Prime Minister’s Office.
He is responsible for several global and regional firsts, including the world’s first fully functional 3D printed building and helping to legalize cryptocurrency and blockchain in the MENA region.
Noah has a background in urban design and public policy, completed his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), his MSc at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and his undergraduate degree at Brown University.
He served as a member World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, a Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, a fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture and a member of the International Futures Forum.
He lives between Dubai and London, has two children and is a fantastic DJ.