{{short description|American geopolitical commentator and author (born 1968)}} {{Use American English|date=February 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Jamie Metzl | image = Dubai Future Forum 2024 - Jamie Metzl.jpg | caption = Metzl at the Dubai Future Forum in 2024 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|07|01}} | birth_place = Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. | education = {{unbulleted list|Brown University (BA)|University of Oxford (PhD)|Harvard Law School (JD)}} | website = https://jamiemetzl.com/profiles/ }}
'''Jamie Frederic Metzl''' (born July 1, 1968)<ref>Cleary, Tom. [https://heavy.com/news/joe-rogan/jamie-metzl/ "Jamie Metzl: 25 Questions Answered"], Heavy.com. Accessed June 25, 2023. "Jamie Metzl was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 1, 1968."</ref> is an American technology and healthcare futurist.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jamie Metzl's “Superconvergence”: The Intersection of AI, biotech, and innovation |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/01/1113538/jamie-metzls-superconvergence-the-intersection-of-ai-biotech-and-innovation/ |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=MIT Technology Review |language=en}}</ref> He is a founder and Chair of the global social movement OneShared.World, a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mahajan |first=Deepashree |date=2018-11-30 |title=The World Re-engineered {{!}} Asia Society |url=https://asiasociety.org/india/world-re-engineered |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=asiasociety.org |language=en}}</ref> a faculty member of NextMed Health,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Age of Supertechnology with Jamie Metzl - The Nocturnists Podcast |url=https://thenocturnists.org/podcast/the-age-of-supertechnology-with-jamie-metzl |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=thenocturnists.org |language=en}}</ref> and a Singularity University expert.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Liarikos |first=Emma |date=2025-03-10 |title=Jamie Metzl on His New Book “Superconvergence” and the Future of Genetic Technology |url=https://www.pellcenter.org/jamie-metzl-on-his-new-book-superconvergence-and-the-future-of-genetic-technology/ |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Pell Center |language=en-US}}</ref>
Metzl has been appeared on national and international media and his syndicated columns,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-14 |title=Jamie Metzl: "R/Evolution: Recasting Life in an Age of Radical Biotechnology" |url=https://www.kunc.org/news/2023-07-14/jamie-metzl-r-evolution-recasting-life-in-an-age-of-radical-biotechnology |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=KUNC |language=en}}</ref> podcast conversations with Joe Rogan,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Superconvergence: The Dawn of Human-Engineered Intelligence with Jamie Metzl |url=https://jamesaltuchershow.com/episode/superconvergence-the-dawn-of-human-engineered-intelligence-with-jamie-metzl |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=The James Altucher Show: Entrepreneurial Wisdom, Innovative Conversations, and Inspirational Insights |language=en}}</ref> Lex Fridman, and others, and interviews on AI, science, technology, and global affairs. He is the author of six books, including the newly-released ''Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World'', the international bestseller, ''Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity'', and the sci-fi thrillers ''Genesis Code'' and ''Eternal Sonata''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2024-05-14 |title=Q&A with Superconvergence author Jamie Metzl |url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/timber-press/qa-with-superconvergence-author-jamie-metzl/ |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Hachette Book Group |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Metzl was born to Marilyn Metzl, a clinical psychologist, and Kurt Metzl, a pediatrician.
Metzl was born in Kansas City, Missouri.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20151230210021/http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/hurricane-sandy-sweeps-away-n-y-marathon-makes-way-for-tikkun-olam-1.475337 Haaratz: "Hurricane Sandy Sweeps Away N.Y. Marathon, Makes Way for Tikkun Olam" by Danna Harman] November 5, 2012</ref> He is the third of four sons of Kurt and Marilyn Metzl.<ref>[https://www.beyondthebris.com/delving-into-genesis-code-an-interview-with-jamie-metzl/ Beyond the Bris: "Delving into Genesis Code: An Interview With Jamie Metzl"] retrieved November 4, 2017</ref> His father, an Austrian-born Holocaust survivor and pediatrician,<ref>{{Cite web |title=CNN.com - The Metzls: Racing against one another - August 5, 2002 |url=http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/diet.fitness/08/05/ironman.brothers/ |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=www.cnn.com}}</ref> died from cancer in April 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Kurt Metzl - Kansas City Jewish Chronicle |url=https://www.kcjc.com/obituaries/10119-dr-kurt-metzl |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=www.kcjc.com}}</ref> His mother, originally from Queens, New York, practiced for many decades as a psychologist and psychoanalyst in Kansas City.<ref>{{Cite web |title=It's been a wonderful life for pediatrician Kurt Metzl - Kansas City Jewish Chronicle |url=https://www.kcjc.com/current-news/latest-news/4646-it-s-been-a-wonderful-life-for-pediatrician-kurt-metzl |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=www.kcjc.com}}</ref>
He attended high school at The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri.<ref>Staff. [https://www.barstowschool.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&tn=World-renowned+Expert+on+Asia+to+Give+Free+Lecture+at+The+Barstow+School+&nid=593756&ptid=52302&sdb=0&mode=0&vcm=0 "World-renowned Expert on Asia to Give Free Lecture at The Barstow School"], The Barstow School, October 3, 2011. Accessed November 1, 2011.</ref> He graduated from Brown University.<ref name="Vail">Staff. [http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20070102/AE/101020053 "Learn how Asia is changing the world"], ''Vail Daily'', January 2, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2011.</ref> He holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University (1994),<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.386538 |title=British Library ETHOS PhD database |access-date=June 24, 2021 |archive-date=June 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624211836/https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.386538 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1997.<ref>Campbell, Matt; and Kraske, Steve. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=KC&p_theme=kc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1037B1779C20F80B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Metzl's ambition praised, criticized"], ''Kansas City Star'', June 26, 2004. Accessed November 1, 2011.</ref> He was a White House Fellow.<ref>Matthews, Mark via ''The Baltimore Sun''. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L4RIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OG8DAAAAIBAJ&dq=metzl%20white-house-fellow&pg=5778%2C4788804 Darkyears for Cambodia and for U.S. too"], ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', April 18, 1998. Accessed November 1, 2011.</ref>
== Career == In 1988, at the age of 19, Metzl volunteered as a teacher and teacher trainer for Cambodian, Hmong, and Vietnamese refugees in the Panat Nikhom refugee camp in Chonburi, Thailand, an experience that had a profound impact on his life.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jamie Metzl, OneShared.World |url=https://www.youthassembly.org/2023/07/25/jamie-metzl/ |website=Youth Assembly |date=25 July 2023}}</ref> From 2001 to 2003, he took a leave of absence from his Ph.D. program at Oxford University, where he was writing his dissertation on the international community’s failure to prevent the Cambodian genocide, to serve as a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia.<ref>Anthuvan, Augustine. [http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/middleeast/view/1120180/1/.html "Former US National Security Council adviser's views on Libya situation"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110405200811/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/middleeast/view/1120180/1/.html |date=April 5, 2011 }}, ''Channel NewsAsia'', April 1, 2011. Accessed November 1, 2011.</ref> There, he helped establish a nation-wide human rights investigation and monitoring unit. After completing his Ph.D. program in a record two years of study, he then attended Harvard Law School, where he was active in both the human rights and technology communities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pamela Hogan and Jamie Metzl Join ICTJ's Board of Directors {{!}} International Center for Transitional Justice |url=https://www.ictj.org/news/pamela-hogan-and-jamie-metzl-join-ictj%E2%80%99s-board-directors |website=www.ictj.org |language=en}}</ref> While a student at Harvard Law School, he began publishing pieces in Foreign Affairs and the American Journal of International Law on how strategic information campaigns could and should have been used to help prevent the genocide in Rwanda and other crises.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lecture Series: Winning Hearts and Minds: Propaganda and Public Diplomacy in the Information Age |url=https://carnegieendowment.org/events/2001/11/lecture-series-winning-hearts-and-minds-propaganda-and-public-diplomacy-in-the-information-age?lang=en |website=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |language=en}}</ref> Following his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1997, he served for six years in the United States government where he led efforts develop America’s strategic engagement with newly development information technologies, including the early-stage internet.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Metzl |first1=Jamie F. |title=Network Diplomacy |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43133985 |website=Georgetown Journal of International Affairs |pages=77–87 |date=2001}}</ref>
From 1997 to 1999, he was Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs in the US National Security Council, serving under National Security Advisor Sandy Berger and Senior Directors Richard Clarke and Eric Schwartz, where he became deeply engaged with issues relating to emerging capabilities in machine learning, genetics, and biotechnology, which has subsequently been the topic of four of his books and other work.<ref name="ClintonLibrary">Staff. [http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/_previous/Documents/0207.pdf Records on Presidential Decision Directive-68 (PDD-68)– Concerning International Public Information (IPI)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021111502/http://clintonlibrary.gov/_previous/Documents/0207.pdf |date=2011-10-21 }}, Clinton Presidential Center, last modified April 27, 2007. Accessed November 3, 2011.</ref> In the Clinton administration, he was the primary drafter of Presidential Decision Directive 68 on International Public Information<ref>Staff. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB0F3B69552F7E5&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Information-control plan aimed at U.S., insider says: International agency to be used for `spinning the news'"], ''The Washington Times'', July 29, 1999. Accessed November 1, 2011.</ref><ref name=NYT2003>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/us/us-spending-against-terror-is-too-low-report-warns.html "U.S. Spending Against Terror Is Too Low, Report Warns"], ''The New York Times'', June 29, 2003. Accessed November 1, 2011.</ref><ref>Curry, Dan. [http://examiner.net/stories/080404/gov_080404015.shtml "Cleaver outlasts Metzl in 5th District race"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041226071928/http://examiner.net/stories/080404/gov_080404015.shtml|date=2004-12-26}}, ''The Examiner (Independence)'', August 4, 2004. Accessed January 5, 2008. "Cleaver defeated Metzl 72,530 (59.9 percent) to 48,531 (40.1 percent)."</ref>
At the NSC, he created and led the International Public Information initiative, an effort to coordinate and strategically leverage all US government information efforts in conflict zones, particularly the former Yugoslavia.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Metzl |first=Jamie Frederic |date=1999 |title=Popular Diplomacy |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20027559 |journal=Daedalus |volume=128 |issue=2 |pages=177–192 |issn=0011-5266}}</ref>
He led information operations to counter the propaganda of then Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, including by establishing the “''Ring Around Serbia''” transmission towers broadcasting the Serbian language programming of the VOA, BBC, RFI, and other networks into Serbia. Metzl was the originator and drafter of Presidential Decision Directive 68, an executive order President Clinton signed in April 1999 establishing information as a recognized domain of US strategy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Declassified Documents Concerning PDD-68, International Public Information · Clinton Digital Library |url=https://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/119204 |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=clinton.presidentiallibraries.us}}</ref>
Metzl’s role in formulating and implementing America’s strategic communications strategies have been described in multiple articles and books, including ''Forging Peace: Intervention, Human Rights and the Management of Media Space''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Stremlau |first=Nicole |date=2004-07-01 |title=Book Review: Forging peace: intervention, human rights and the management of media space |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/146499340400400310 |journal=Progress in Development Studies |language=EN |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=271–273 |doi=10.1177/146499340400400310 |issn=1464-9934|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
From 1999 to 2001, he was Senior Advisor on International Public Information at the US Department of State, serving under then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kaplan |first=Jonathan E. |title=Bipartisan think tank formed |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/news/8489-bipartisan-think-tank-formed/ |website=The Hill}}</ref>
From 2001 to 2003, he served as Deputy Staff Director of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations under then Chairman Joe Biden and Staff Director Antony Blinken.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-09 |title=Asia Society Members Cocktails with Jamie Metzl {{!}} Asia Society |url=https://asiasociety.org/hong-kong/events/asia-society-members-cocktails-jamie-metzl |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=asiasociety.org |language=en}}</ref>
In 2003, he served briefly as Project Director for the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Emergency Preparedness. When released, its report, ''Drastically Underfunded, Dangerously Unprepared'', received a great deal of public attention.<ref>https://tools.niehs.nih.gov/wetp/Docs/WMD/CFR_Responders_Jul03.pdf
Drastically Underfunded, Dangerously Unprepared Report of the Independent Task Force on Emergency Responders Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations</ref> Metzl appeared alongside co-chair Senator Warren Rudman on Meet the Press with Tim Russert in June 2003 and testified before Congress calling for significantly enhancing preparations for future crises.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Metzl |first=Jamie F. |title=Testimony of Jamie Metzl Before the House Select Committee on Homeland Security {{!}} Council on Foreign Relations |url=https://www.cfr.org/report/testimony-jamie-metzl-house-select-committee-homeland-security |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=www.cfr.org |language=en}}</ref>
Metzl moved back to his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri to run for US Congress.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pamela Hogan and Jamie Metzl Join ICTJ's Board of Directors {{!}} International Center for Transitional Justice |url=https://www.ictj.org/news/pamela-hogan-and-jamie-metzl-join-ictj%E2%80%99s-board-directors |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=www.ictj.org |language=fr}}</ref> In the Democratic primary of the heavily democratic Fifth District, he was defeated by former Kansas City mayor Emanuel Cleaver.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Janovy |first=C. J. |date=2004-07-01 |title=The Preach and the Prep |url=https://www.thepitchkc.com/the-preach-and-the-prep/ |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=The Pitch |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2004, he was recruited by a mentor, Richard Holbrooke, to become Executive Vice President of the Asia Society, an international not-for-profit headquartered in New York City, of which Holbrooke had recently become board chair.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Book Discussion: Genesis Code by Jamie Metzl {{!}} CSIS Events |url=https://www.csis.org/events/book-discussion-genesis-code-jamie-metzl |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=www.csis.org |language=en}}</ref>
Metzl served in that capacity for six years, where he played the role establishing the Asia-Pacific leadership development network Asia 21, transformational policy initiatives, and revamped media and social media strategies.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-05-26 |title=Interview: Jamie Metzl on Why Chinese Snowboarders Will Be Significant {{!}} Asia Society |url=https://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/interview-jamie-metzl-why-chinese-snowboarders-will-be-significant |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=asiasociety.org |language=en}}</ref>
In 2008, Metzl was the lead witness in a US House of Representatives hearing on Genetics and Other Human Modification Technologies.<ref>{{Cite web |last=O’Neill |first=John |date=2015-08-18 |title=Jamie Metzl discusses human genetic engineering |url=https://www.vaildaily.com/news/jamie-metzl-discusses-human-genetic-engineering/ |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=www.vaildaily.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2014, he became a partner in the global holding company Cranemere LLC, a position which he left following the release of his books exploring the future of AI, genetics, and biotechnology.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jamie Metzl |url=https://www.changemakertalent.com/speakers/jamie-metzl |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=Changemaker Talent |language=en}}</ref>
In 2019, following both the publication of ''Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity'' and the highly controversial birth of the world’s first “CRISPR babies” in China, Metzl was appointed to the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Committee on Human Genome Editing by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.<ref name="Gleiser">{{Cite news |last=Gleiser |first=Marcelo |date=2019-05-02 |title='Hacking Darwin' Explores Genetic Engineering — And What It Means To Be Human |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/05/02/718250111/hacking-darwin-explores-genetic-engineering-and-what-it-means-to-be-human |access-date=2025-07-03 |work=NPR |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite report |url=https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1344135/retrieve |title=WHO Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing: REPORT OF THE FIRST MEETING |author=World Health Organization |date=2019-03-19 |publisher=World Health Organization |accessdate=2023-06-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-08 |title=BBC World News - BBC News with Katty and Christian, Former US security official wants China to be forthcoming about Covid-19 origin |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09kwhzb |access-date=2023-06-26 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>
In 2020, he created the global interdependence movement, OneShared.World, which brough together people from around the world to draft a Declaration of Interdependence, which has been translated into twenty languages. The Dalai Lama, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, opera artist Fenee Fleming and Sting.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Assembly |first=Youth |last2=milena |date=2023-07-25 |title=Jamie Metzl, OneShared.World |url=https://youthassembly.afssite.afs.org/2023/07/25/jamie-metzl/ |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=Youth Assembly |language=en-US}}</ref>
Metzl has also served as an election monitor in Afghanistan<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-05-26 |title=The Afghan War: Nine Years On {{!}} Asia Society |url=https://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/afghan-war-nine-years |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=asiasociety.org |language=en}}</ref> and the Philippines<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lecture by Jamie Metzl ”Political Landscape in East Asia and the Global Future:What Do U.S.-North Korea Relations and U.S.-China Relations Tell Us?” - The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership |url=https://www.jpf.go.jp/cgp/e/exchange/intellectual/news190304.html |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=www.jpf.go.jp}}</ref> and advised the government of North Korea on the establishment of Special Economic Zones.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-06 |title=Hacking Darwin: genetic engineering and the future of humanity with Jamie Metzl {{!}} Salve Regina University |url=https://salve.edu/news/news-listing/hacking-darwin-genetic-engineering-and-future-humanity-jamie-metzl |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=salve.edu |language=en}}</ref> He is a current board member of Partnership for a Secure America, the American University in Mongolia and Parsons Dance and previously served on the boards of HIAS, Park University, and the International Center for Transitional Justice.<ref name=":0" /> Metzl has been a vocal proponent of the COVID-19 lab leak theory.<ref>Stolberg, Sheryl Gay; and Mueller, Benjamin. [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/us/politics/covid-origins-lab-leak-politics.html "Lab Leak or Not? How Politics Shaped the Battle Over Covid’s Origin"], ''The New York Times'', March 19, 2023. Accessed June 25, 2023.</ref> In March 2023, he testified at the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic invited by US House Republicans.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lenharo |first1=Mariana |last2=Wolf |first2=Lauren |date=2023-03-09 |title=US COVID-origins hearing renews debate over lab-leak hypothesis |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00701-1 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=615 |issue=7952 |pages=380–381 |doi=10.1038/d41586-023-00701-1|pmid=36890328 |s2cid=257426722 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Werner |first=John |title=In Superconvergence, Jamie Metzl Unravels AI Mysteries |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwerner/2024/07/16/in-superconvergence-jamie-metzl-unravels-ai-mysteries/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2024-08-28 |title=A futurist explains 3 essential things needed to prepare for the imminent AI and biotech revolutions |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/91174662/a-futurist-explains-3-essential-things-needed-to-prepare-for-the-imminent-ai-and-biotech-revolutions |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240902084726/https://www.fastcompany.com/91174662/a-futurist-explains-3-essential-things-needed-to-prepare-for-the-imminent-ai-and-biotech-revolutions |archive-date=September 2, 2024 |access-date=2024-12-11 |work=Fast Company |language=en-US |url-status=live }}</ref>
Metzl has been called “the original COVID-19 whistleblower“ for his efforts calling for a full investigation into pandemic origins.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-14 |title=Jamie Metzl: "R/Evolution: Recasting Life in an Age of Radical Biotechnology" |url=https://www.kunc.org/news/2023-07-14/jamie-metzl-r-evolution-recasting-life-in-an-age-of-radical-biotechnology |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=KUNC |language=en}}</ref> Since early 2020, he has been a leading voice raising the possibility of a COVID-19 research related origin.In April 2020, he launched his “Origins of SARS-CoV-2,” website. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Jamie Metzl's Superconvergence: The Intersection of AI, Biotech, and Innovation |url=https://www.infosys.com/iki/podcasts/ai-biotech-innovation-intersection.html |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=www.infosys.com |language=en}}</ref> His July 2020 ''Wall Street Journal'' editorial raising questions about pandemic origins<ref>{{Cite news |last=Metzl |first=Jamie |date=2020-07-28 |title=Opinion {{!}} How to Hold Beijing Accountable for the Coronavirus |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-hold-beijing-accountable-for-the-coronavirus-11595976973 |access-date=2025-07-03 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> and August 2020 ''The Hill'' editorial calling for the establishment of a 9/11-style commission.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Metzl |first=Jamie |title=The COVID-19 catastrophe demands a national commission review |url=https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/512298-the-covid-19-catastrophe-demands-a-national-commission-review/ |work=The Hill}}</ref>
Metzl was the co-organizer and lead drafter of open letters issued by the “Paris Group” of experts, of which he was a leading member, that were released on March 4, April 7, April 30, and June 28, 2021 and covered by media.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-04-07 |title=Calls for Further Inquiries Into Coronavirus Origins |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/07/science/virus-inquiries-pandemic-origins.html |access-date=2025-07-16 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-03-04 |title=Letter Seeking International Inquiry Into Origins of the Coronavirus |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/04/us/covid-origins-letter.html |access-date=2025-07-16 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
In 2021, 60 Minutes ran a feature highlighting Metzl’s work on pandemic origins.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stahl |first=Lesley |date=2021-03-28 |title=What happened in Wuhan? Why questions still linger on the origin of the coronavirus - 60 Minutes - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-wuhan-origins-60-minutes-2021-03-28/ |access-date=2025-07-16 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Metzl was also the lead witness in the March 2023 US congressional hearings on COVID-19 origins, the first such hearings held anywhere in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-07-23 |title=Investigating the Origins of COVID-19 |url=https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/investigating-the-origins-of-covid-19/ |access-date=2025-07-16 |website=United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability |language=en}}</ref>
In 2021, he co-established, along with the global financial services firm WisdomTree, the WisdomTree BioRevolution ETF.<ref>{{Cite web |last=WisdomTree |title=All Aboard for the BioRevolution {{!}} WisdomTree |url=https://www.wisdomtree.com/investments/blog/2021/09/09/all-aboard-for-the-biorevolution |access-date=2025-07-16 |website=www.wisdomtree.com |language=en}}</ref> The publicly listed exchange-traded fund largely tracks the thesis regarding the intersection of AI, genetics, and biology Metzl outlined in ''Hacking Darwin''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=WisdomTree |title=A Conversation with Jamie Metzl on the BioRevolution {{!}} WisdomTree |url=https://www.wisdomtree.com/investments/blog/2023/05/11/a-conversation-with-jamie-metzl-on-the-biorevolution |access-date=2025-07-16 |website=www.wisdomtree.com |language=en}}</ref>
In 2025, he was appointed as a Commissioner of The Lancet Commission on Precision Medicine, which will develop over four years what is expected to be the definitive report on the future of technology-enhanced healthcare.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Jamie Metzl |url=https://www.dubaifuture.ae/speakers-forum/dr-jamie-metzl/ |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=Dubai Future Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref>
Metzl has been an advocate of bipartisan collaboration on US foreign and national security policy for decades.<ref>{{Cite web |last=sodal |date=2023-02-16 |title=Metzl on Fox News discussing the need to investigate the origins of COVID |url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/insight-impact/in-the-news/metzl-on-fox-news-discussing-the-need-to-investigate-the-origins-of-covid/ |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=Atlantic Council |language=en-US}}</ref> Along with Warren Rudman and Lee Hamilton, he co-founded in 2004 the national security organization Partnership for a Secure America. He served as PSA’s board co-chair for over two decades.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Studley |first=Laura |date=2019-04-22 |title=Spend an evening in the not-too-distant future with author Jamie Metzl |url=https://source.colostate.edu/spend-an-evening-in-the-not-too-distant-future-with-author-jamie-metzl/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250330002145/https://source.colostate.edu/spend-an-evening-in-the-not-too-distant-future-with-author-jamie-metzl/ |archive-date=March 30, 2025 |access-date=2025-07-03 |work=SOURCE |language=en-US |url-status=live }}</ref>
From 2023-2024, Metzl served as the lead Democratic commissioner in the Heritage Foundation Nonpartisan Commission on China and COVID-19, alongside lead Republican and Commission chair, John Ratcliffe.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Etzel |first=Gabrielle M. |date=2024-07-08 |title=Nonpartisan commission says COVID-19 likely came from lab and recommends holding China accountable - Washington Examiner |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/3073129/nonpartisan-commission-covid-19-likely-from-lab-china/ |access-date=2025-07-16 |language=en-US}}</ref> The commission’s report, released in July 2024, detailed the aggregate costs of the COVID-19 pandemic and outlined essential next steps for preventing similar future crises.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-08 |title=Let citizens sue China for COVID costs says new US report |url=https://thenightly.com.au/world/covid-19-calls-grow-for-china-to-be-held-accountable-and-liable-for-18t-over-deaths-and-economic-damage--c-15278893 |access-date=2025-07-16 |website=The Nightly |language=en}}</ref> In 2024, Metzl recruited other previous staff of then President Joe Biden to sign a petition he had drafted calling on the president to not seek reelection and allow for a competitive primary to select an alternate candidate.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Egger |first=Andrew |title=Former Biden Staffers Circulate Petition Calling for Him to Exit Race |url=https://www.thebulwark.com/p/former-biden-staffers-petition-drop-out-campaign |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=www.thebulwark.com |language=en}}</ref>
Metzl is the author of six books, including the newly-released ''Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World''<ref>{{Cite news |title=A futurist explains 3 essential things needed to prepare for the imminent AI and biotech revolutions |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/91174662/a-futurist-explains-3-essential-things-needed-to-prepare-for-the-imminent-ai-and-biotech-revolutions |work=Fast Company}}</ref>'','' the international bestseller ''Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity'',<ref name="Gleiser"/> the sci-fi thrillers ''Genesis Code''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wald |first=Rebecca |date=2015-07-16 |title=Delving into Genesis Code: An Interview With Jamie Metzl |url=https://www.beyondthebris.com/delving-into-genesis-code-an-interview-with-jamie-metzl/ |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=Beyond the Bris |language=en-US}}</ref> and ''Eternal Sonata'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seeing the Future |url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2017-03-02/seeing-the-future |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=www.brownalumnimagazine.com |language=en}}</ref> the historical novel ''The Depths of the Sea, and a history of the Cambodian genocide''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-02-05 |title=Asia Society Policy Salon Tokyo (ASPST) {{!}} Breakfast #4 Jamie Metzl {{!}} Asia Society |url=https://asiasociety.org/japan/events/asia-society-policy-salon-tokyo-aspst-breakfast-4-jamie-metzl-0 |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=asiasociety.org |language=en}}</ref>
Metzl’s short story “''A Visit to Weizenbaum''” was made into the 2021 short film ''Source Code''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Source Code: A short film depicting artificial intelligence in a future war |url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/source-code/ |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=Atlantic Council |language=en-US}}</ref> Metzl provides keynote addresses on the impact and implications of revolutionary technologies to corporations, organizations, and associations, and was the lead keynote speaker at the inaugural Dubai Future Forum.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dubai Future Forum unveils over 70 global futurists, showcases their ground-breaking visions |url=https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/dubai-future-forum-unveils-over-70-global-futurists-showcases-their-ground-breaking-visions |access-date=2025-07-16 |website=Khaleej Times |language=en}}</ref>
He serves as a strategic advisor on the future of AI to organizations and has been a featured speaker at AI summits across the globe.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Metzl |first=Jamie |date=2023-09-05 |title=Human Success in the AI Age |url=https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/human-evolve-with-their-technologies-including-ai-by-jamie-f-metzl-2023-09 |access-date=2025-07-16 |website=Project Syndicate |language=en}}</ref> He also lectures to health and health-related organizations about the future of healthcare and sits on the advisory boards of Genomic Prediction, Harvard Medical School Preventive Genomics, the Lake Nona Impact Forum.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Augustana's Boe Forum Explores the Impact of Genetic Engineering on our Future |url=https://www.augie.edu/news/2019/augustanas-boe-forum-explores-impact-genetic-engineering-our-future |access-date=2025-07-16 |website=www.augie.edu |language=en}}</ref>
== Honors and awards == Metzl has been selected as a White House Fellow,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Age of Supertechnology with Jamie Metzl - The Nocturnists Podcast |url=https://thenocturnists.org/podcast/the-age-of-supertechnology-with-jamie-metzl |access-date=2025-07-16 |website=thenocturnists.org |language=en}}</ref> an Aspen Institute Crown Fellow,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jamie Metzl |url=https://dohadebates.com/people/jamie-metzl/ |access-date=2025-07-16 |website=Doha Debates |language=en-US}}</ref> and a French-American Foundation Young Leader.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Earlier Classes - 2002 |url=https://frenchamerican.org/young-leaders/earlier-classes/2002/ |access-date=2025-07-16 |website=French-American Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref>
He is the former Honorary Ambassador to North America of the Republic of Korea Ministry of Trade and Industry and the current Honorary Global Investment Ambassador to the Mayor of Seoul.<ref>{{Cite web |title=One-on-one with Jamie Metzl As an Honorary Ambassador of Foreign Investment |url=https://www.investkorea.org/upload/kotraexpress/2017/09/Interview.html |website=Kotra Express}}</ref>
==Personal life== Metzl lives in New York City.<ref>[http://www.siiaonline.org/?q=events/tête-à-tête-america’s-role-a-fast-changing-asia "Tête-à-tête: America’s role in a fast-changing Asia"], Singapore Institute of International Affairs, May 18, 2010. Accessed November 1, 2011.</ref><ref>[Metzl, Jamie. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100407014727/http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2495/32/ "Judgment at Wikipedia"], ''Brown Alumni Magazine'', March–April 2010, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 7, 2010. Accessed February 1, 2022.</ref> An avid skier, ultramarathon runner, and ironman triathlete, Metzl has completed 60 marathons, 13 ironman triathlons, and 40 ultramarathons.<ref>Basheer, K.P.M. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080129224946/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/14/stories/2007031420800200.htm "Putting creative minds together"], ''The Hindu'', March 14, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2011.</ref><ref>Shetty, Vinita A. [http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/dna-sunday-mumbai/mi_8112/is_20100502/marathon/ai_n53410318/ "Marathon man"], ''Daily News and Analysis Mumbai'', May 2, 2010. Accessed November 1, 2011.</ref> His experience training with the East Timorese Olympic running team was highlighted by the ''New York Times'' in 2001, and his grueling experience completing a 19 hour ultramarathon in a Taiwanese rainforest was featured in ''Trail Runner'' in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Metzl |first=Jamie F. |date=2001-05-27 |title=BackTalk; A Message of Hope in Each Stride |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/27/sports/backtalk-a-message-of-hope-in-each-stride.html |access-date=2025-07-03 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
==Works== *{{cite book|author= Jamie Frederic Metzl |title=Western Responses to Abuses in Cambodia, 1975-80|publisher=St. Martin's Press|year=1996|isbn=0-333-64325-9}} *{{cite book|author=Jamie Frederic Metzl|title=The Depths of the Sea|publisher=St. Martin's Press|date=May 2004|isbn=0-312-32202-X|url=https://archive.org/details/depthsofsea00metz}} *Jamie Frederic Metzl (2014) ''Genesis Code'', Arcade. {{ISBN|1628724234}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/genesiscodethril0000metz|title=Genesis code : a thriller of the near future|last=Frederic|first=Metzl, Jamie|isbn=9781628724233|edition=First|location=New York|oclc=868648683|date=2014-11-04}}</ref> *Jamie Frederic Metzl (2016) ''Eternal Sonata'', Arcade. ASIN: B01HDVCR4U *Jamie Frederic Metzl (April 2019) ''Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity'', Sourcebooks. {{ISBN|149267009X}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=Hacking Darwin : genetic engineering and the future of humanity|last=Frederic|first=Metzl, Jamie|isbn=9781492670094|location=Naperville, Illinois|oclc=1040198428|year = 2019}}</ref> *{{Cite book |last=Metzl |first=Jamie Frederic |title=Superconvergence: how the genetics, biotech, and AI revolutions will transform our lives, work, and world |date=2024 |publisher=Timber Press |isbn=978-1-64326-300-7 |location=Portland, Oregon}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *''아시아 차세대 리더들, 한국서 배울 점 많아 ''(Chosun Ilbo, November 2006) [http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2006/11/17/2006111760012.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319150447/http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2006/11/17/2006111760012.html |date=March 19, 2012 }} {{in lang|ko}} *[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jamie-metzl-lessons_n_6246106 A Modern Day Renaissance Man Shares Lessons on Happiness, Habits, and Health (Huffington Post, December 2014)] *[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-future-brain/201811/polymath-jamie-metzl-ai-genetics-and-the-future Polymath Jamie Metzl on AI, Genetics, and the Future (''Psychology Today'', November 2018)]
== External links == *[https://jamiemetzl.com/ Jamie Metzl Personal Website]
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