Glen Weyl

[4][5] Weyl helped create a collective decision-making procedure known as quadratic voting, designed to allow fine-grained expression of how strongly voters feel about an issue,[2] and also a method of democratically disbursing resources known as quadratic funding.

[6] Weyl was born in San Francisco,[1] and grew up in Palo Alto, California.

In his youth, Weyl embraced free-market beliefs after being introduced to the works of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman.

[10] He went on to attend Princeton University, where four years later, he was valedictorian of the class of 2007; while still an undergraduate, he completed the required coursework and exams for a doctoral degree in economics, which he received the next year, under the supervision of Jean Tirole, José Scheinkman, Hyun-Song Shin, and Roland Bénabou.

[7][11] After receiving his PhD, Weyl spent three years as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and another three years as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, before joining Microsoft Research as an economist and researcher.

Glen Weyl at Re:publica 2024