Gideon Lichfield

Gideon Lichfield is a journalist and editor whose career spans nearly three decades at the intersection of technology, society, and political systems. He has served as editor in chief of WIRED and MIT Technology Review, was a founding editor of Quartz, and spent many years as a science writer and foreign correspondent for The Economist in Mexico City, Moscow, and Jerusalem. His work has established him as one of the leading voices on how technology shapes geopolitics, public life, and the future of governance.

Gideon is currently a fellow at Harvard University’s Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and has previously held fellowships at the Data and Society Research Institute and UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. He has taught journalism at New York University’s Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute and edited the MIT Press science fiction anthology Make Shift: Dispatches From the Post Pandemic Future. He also writes Futurepolis, a newsletter on reinventing government for the twenty first century, and contributes to Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and other global outlets.

At BRIDGE Summit, Gideon Lichfield will explore how emerging technologies are reshaping power, governance, and public trust, and what institutions must do to adapt to the complex realities of a rapidly shifting global landscape.