Brain capital builder

Harris believes the world is increasingly relying on brain capital, where a premium is put on brain skills and brain health (e.g. individual’s cognitive, emotional, and social brain resources). Investing in building brain capital is fundamental to meet modern societal challenges and to drive innovation.

Harris leads the development of the brain capital framework and seeks to place it at the center of economics, policy, finance and technology. He achieves his aims by “silo smashing” between neuroscience, medicine, business, economics, technology, diplomacy, social sciences, and the arts. 

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

His key positions are:
- Lead for the Brain Capital Alliance, a public-private-people partnership advancing brain capital activities in policy, economics and investing. This work has been profiled in the New York Times, Newsweek, Neuron, Forbes, PwC, FT, STAT, the Financial Post, neo.life and the Australian Financial Review
- Co-lead of the OECD "Neuroscience-inspired Policy Initiative" (NIPI).
- Senior Fellow with the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
- Fellow with the Center for Health and Bioscience, The Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University
- Chief Medical Officer of PRODEO, a brain health technology executive services group. He has co-led major commercial contracts, product development, dilutive and non-dilutive capital raising efforts
- Advisor to the Heka Fund, Brain Health Nexus, the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute, the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association and the Tropical Brain and Mind Foundation
- Member of the Champion's Cabinet of the Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative and a member of Project Value Alzheimer’s Europe (PAVE)
- Adjunct with the Global Brain Health Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, BrainLat, Deakin University and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston (UTHealth)

Career highlights:
- Alumnus of Forbes 30 Under 30 and the Fulbright Scholar program
- Awardee of the EB1A Green Card, an honor typically reserved for Nobel and Pulitzer prize winners
- Author of 140+ papers with 1000s of coauthors
- Lead editor of the book ‘Convergence Mental Health’ (Oxford University Press)

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.