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Adjunct Professor Paul McCarthy
Professor Paul X McCarthy is a CEO, computational social science research leader and author. His bestselling book Online Gravity explains how technology is rebooting economics worldwide. McCarthy is a contributor to The Conversation, AFR and Forbes on business, technology and innovation.
McCarthy is CEO and co-founder of League of Scholars a startup working with Universities, Governments and Publishers including Nature and News Corporation to help understand who’s who in research worldwide. McCarthy is also co-founder of several innovative enterprises for IBM, NSW Government and CSIRO—Australia’s National Science Agency and the inventors of Wi-Fi. Previously he was a founding board member and Chairman of The Studio — a new global media tech hub launched in Sydney in 2018.
McCarthy is a trusted adviser to Government and a number of data and AI based technology startups. McCarthy is an Industry Fellow at The UTS Data Science Institute and an Honorary Fellow at Western Sydney University.
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