SRI Director Gillian Hadfield joins Long Run Initiative’s board of governors
Schwartz Reisman Institute Director and Chair Gillian Hadfield joins the board of governors of The Long Run Initiative.
In October of 2018, Canadian business scholar and historian Laurence Mussio cofounded the Long Run Initiative with John Turner and Michael Aldous of Queen’s University Belfast—both professors specializing in business, management, and financial history. The co-founders believed that applying insights from history to tackle contemporary challenges in economics, public policy, business, and society could help shape the trajectory of the future.
The LRI’s board of governors is now joined by Schwartz Reisman Institute Director Gillian Hadfield, a scholar of law and economics whose work on innovating legal markets and improving access to justice has had a seminal influence across academic disciplines. Hadfield’s current research as the inaugural Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society focuses on regulatory systems for AI and other complex global technologies, analyzing how human normative systems work, and working with machine learning researchers to build ML systems that understand and respond to human norms.
“I’m delighted to join the LRI’s Board of Governors, an impressive and accomplished group steering LRI’s course to tackle the big challenges facing business and society today,” says Hadfield.
“One of our biggest challenges right now is adapting our legal, regulatory and economic systems to ensure powerful technologies develop in ways that are safe, fair and beneficial for all. The world is undergoing immense change in our era of digital globalization, and I very much look forward to contributing to the dialogues, reflections and visions for the future that the LRI is working hard to foster.”
Mussio says the LRI is “just elated that Dr. Hadfield has agreed to join our governing board. She is a brilliant scholar whose work stands out as an example of how outstanding scholarship can be put to work to respond to some of the great challenges we confront as a society.”
