Today we speak to Bilal Baloch, Co-Founder and COO of GlobalWonks, a software company that uses artificial intelligence to deliver expert insights to organizations worldwide.
As well as his entrepreneurial ventures Bilal has an academic background with over over 10 years’ of experience in learning how decisions are made within organizations. Bilal completed his Bachelor’s at the LSE, holds a Master’s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a doctorate in political science from Oxford University. His new book, When Ideas Matter traces where ideas come from, how they are chosen, and when they are most salient for explaining political behaviour using case studies from India, Brazil, Turkey and Indonesia.
In this podcast Bilal discusses new paradigms of the knowledge economy, expertise and forecasting and the role of social sciences within the same as well the role of governance, democracy and free expression in developing and incubating knowledge economies. We hope you enjoy the podcast.
Check out the GlobalWonks platform here.
Bilal's new book "When Ideas Matter" is available to pre-order here and is due to be published on the 31 August 2021.