Edgar Barroso

EDGAR BARROSO, PhD ’14, music, is a member of the inaugural Society of Harvard Horizon Scholars. The United Nations has invited him to serve as an international consultant and a member of its expert groups on technological change, artificial intelligence, and automation. A composer by training, Barroso has received awards for his compositions in Europe, Asia, Russia, North America, and Latin America. He has built his career developing transdisciplinary methods and forming teams and projects across business, science, art, entrepreneurship, and applied technology. Currently, he focuses on designing systems for complex endeavors, combining transdisciplinary methods and emerging technology to drive public transformation. He founded Horizons Architecture, a practice that builds decision infrastructure for governments and international organizations around hybrid human–AI intelligence. He is a professor at the School of Government and Public Transformation at Tecnológico de Monterrey, where he founded and directed the Laboratory of Entrepreneurship and Transformation for seven years. He also founded Antena Labs, a technology company devoted to public transformation, and Casa Antena, a space for technological and community learning in Mexico. He lives in Zurich.