Advancing the Brain Economy

Mental and neurological disorders cost the global economy trillions each year. We face major challenges with education access and outcomes, as well as upskilling and reskilling in the workplace.

Solving brain health and brain skill challenges will require a major transformation. This is complex and will require a systems approach. Incremental change will not be sufficient and there are few silver bullets.

In response, governments and companies have been multiplying commitments and actions in areas, such as youth mental health, dementia prevention, mis- and disinformation resilience, algorithm literacy, and neuroscience research.

In Harris's career, he has operated as a physician, scientist, entrepreneur, executive services provider, author, new economic and finance thinker, and neuroscience diplomat. 

In the brain health technology field, Harris has co-led major commercial contracts, product development, dilutive and non-dilutive capital-raising efforts. 

His key positions are:
- Lead of the Neuro-Policy Program and Harry Z. Yan and Weiman Gao Senior Fellow, Rice University Baker Institute for Public Policy
- Executive Director, Brain Capital Alliance, a public-private-people partnership advancing brain capital activities in policy, economics and investing.
- Senior Fellow, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
- Research Fellow, Stanford University Frontier Technology Lab
- Advisor: MD Anderson Cancer Neuroscience Program, Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association, UC Berkeley Neurotech Collider Lab, CABHI Ventures, BrainLat
- Member: Champion's Cabinet of the Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative, Mental Wealth Initiative
- Adjunct: UCSF, Global Brain Health Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Deakin University and UTHealth Houston

Career highlights:
- Alumnus: Forbes 30 Under 30 and the Fulbright Scholar program
- Awardee: EB1A Green Card, an honor typically reserved for Nobel and Pulitzer prize winners
- Author: 200+ papers with 1000s of coauthors in outlets such as The Brookings Institution, Lancet Neurology, World Psychiatry
- Lead editor of the book "Convergence Mental Health" (Oxford University Press)

Harris is a migraineur and recently wrote a short story titled "My migraines are a superpower" for the European Federation of Neurological Associations.

He is from the Great Barrier Reef region of Australia and is now based in the USA.

Harris enjoys golf, biking, swimming, meditation, podcasts and international relations.