Dror Poleg

Dror Poleg is an economic historian and former tech and private-equity executive. He charts AI’s impact on work, places, and markets. Dror’s writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Atlantic, and his insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and The Times of London. He writes a popular newsletter and briefs leadership teams at companies like JPMorgan, UBS, and HSBC.

His research and keynotes explore economic and technological changes that are easy to miss while they are small and impossible to ignore once they compound. Dror’s readers gained early insights into the defining shifts of the past decade, from remote work and the K-shaped economy to generative AI and the data center boom.

Dror’s forthcoming book (Pan Macmillan, 2027) sets out the new rules of work, wealth, and power in an economy governed by software, networks, and stories. His first book, Rethinking Real Estate (2019), examined how technology reshapes workplaces, labor markets, and cities.

Dror holds a Master’s in Economic History from the London School of Economics and has spoken at the University of Zurich, Wharton, MIT, and Columbia. He draws on firsthand experience as a startup founder, investor, parliamentary adviser, and combat veteran, and on years of living and working in Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. He lives in New York with his wife and three children.