The founder, Kevin Esvelt, who was not present with us, has a PhD in international relations with a focus on foreign policy-making. Before founding SecureBio, he was concerned about the lack of preparedness for existential risks from AI.
If you click the link it says he has a biochemistry PhD, and my impression is he has always been more of a bio guy (arguably the bio guy):
Kevin M. Esvelt is an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Sculpting Evolution Group in advancing biotechnology safely.
He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University for inventing a synthetic microbial ecosystem to rapidly evolve useful biomolecules, and subsequently helped pioneer the development of CRISPR, a powerful new method of genome engineering.
Are you sure this is right?
If you click the link it says he has a biochemistry PhD, and my impression is he has always been more of a bio guy (arguably the bio guy):
Thanks Larks, I definitely agree with your characterisation of Kevin Esvelt as the bio guy. An error crept into our notes but is now corrected.