Professor Nicholas Davis

With Prof Edward Santow and Prof Sally Cripps, Nicholas Davis is co-Director of the Human Technology Institute (HTI) and Industry Professor of Emerging Technology at the University of Technology Sydney. HTI aims to put human values at the centre of Australia's capability to develop, deploy and govern emerging technologies, thereby ensuring they are accountable, accurate, fair and fit-for-purpose.

Nick was formerly the World Economic Forum’s Head of Society and Innovation and a member of the Forum’s Executive Committee. With Professor Klaus Schwab, he is the co-author of Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Nick is concurrently a Professor of Practice at ASU’s Thunderbird School of Global Practice, an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford's Said Business School, a Visiting Fellow at ANU in the School of Cybernetics, an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and serves on a number of boards and advisory committees including ASIC’s Consultative Panel and AICD’s Technology Governance and Innovation panel. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford and University of Sydney.