Tim O'Reilly is the Principal Investigator and Co-Director of the AI Disclosures Project at the SSRC. He is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O’Reilly Media, and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), where he helped establish (with Mariana Mazzucato) a multi-year research project sponsored by the Omidyar Network. This project investigated Big Tech’s use of algorithmic allocations to extract rents from their ecosystems. Known for coining terms such as “Open Source” and “Web 2.0,” Tim has pioneered technology publishing, conferences, digital media, and the concepts we use to understand technology trends.

Dr. Ilan Strauss is Program Director of the AI Disclosures Project at the SSRC. He is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (London), where he was head of digital economy research on a multi-year Omidyar Network funded research project. He is a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg. Ilan was the joint recipient of an Economic Security Project grant investigating Big Tech’s acquisitions of technological capabilities. He previously taught macroeconomics at New York University (Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies) and at Rice University (Jones Graduate School of Business), and has consulted widely for United Nations bodies.