Described by Chief Economics Correspondent of the FT Martin Wolf as “the most brilliant economist you’ve never heard of”, Nicholas Gruen is a policy economist and entrepreneur and frequent commentator on Australian media and international podcasts.

He is CEO of Lateral Economics, Visiting Professor at Kings College London and Adjunct Professor at UTS Business School. In the 1980s he was a school teacher and a cartoonist.

He is Patron of the Australian Digital Alliance, comprising Australia’s libraries, universities, and digital infrastructure providers such as Google and Yahoo.

He was the first chair of Kaggle — now part of Google — and is an international start up investor. He was also founding chair of HealthKit (now Halaxy) and is former chair of global aged care software provider Health Metrics.