About the speaker

Doyne Farmer is Director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford University, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and Chief Scientist at Macrocosm. He has made fundamental contributions to chaos theory and is renowned for his pioneering work in complexity economics, financial stability, and technological progress, especially as they relate to a low-carbon future. As a graduate student, he built the first wearable digital computer to successfully beat the game of roulette and later founded Prediction Company, one of the first quantitative automated trading firms. Doyne’s book, Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World, published in 2024, synthesizes his journey from chaos theory to building innovative frameworks for a more resilient and equitable economy.