GBEI will focus on 5 critical levers to build the brain economy

  1. Safeguard brain health by ensuring access to effective care for brain health conditions and promoting brain health across the life course

  2. Foster brain skills for the next generation, current workers, and those in later life

  3. Study brain capital by defining brain capital as an interdisciplinary field, developing robust measures, and expanding research and development to drive progress

  4. Invest in brain capital by funding products, services, and systems that improve brain capital, using both traditional and innovative financial instruments

  5. Mobilize for brain capital by forging a coordinated global movement that aligns stakeholders around a shared vision and roadmap to build brain capital.

GBEI Steering Committee: Coming soon

GBEI is in the process of developing a Steering Committee that will ensure interdisciplinary excellence, global legitimacy, and representation of the full brain-economy systems change constituency.

This committee will include leading industry leaders and scholars across neuroscience, economics, artificial intelligence, environmental health, education, labor, and finance.

This committee builds on the work of the Brain Economy Action Forum and its affiliated Pathfinder organizations to support the roadmap for building brain capital laid out in the World Economic Forum and McKinsey Health Institute Insight Report, The Human Advantage: Stronger Brains in the Age of AI.

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Harris Eyre

Executive Director, Global Brain Economy Initiative | Senior Fellow, Rice University & The University of Texas Medical Branch | Senior Advisor, McKinsey Health Institute

Harris A. Eyre, MBBS, Ph.D.  is a physician, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and strategist. He is widely credited for pioneering the brain economy transition and is dedicated to fostering awareness, data, tools, investment, and leadership to drive the transition.

We are entering a new era shaped by the rise of the brain economy. The brain economy is an economic transition that prioritizes investment in brain capital across the lifespan. Brain capital is an asset that integrates brain health and brain skills to support societal resilience and inclusive growth. Fostering brain capital has the potential to unlock $6.2 trillion in global economic opportunities.

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