Nathan Wolfe
Founder, Chairman of the Board, Metabiota; Investor, Tech Advisor
Nathan Wolfe is the founder and chairman of the board of Metabiota, a data analytics company focused on epidemic risk. An advisor to and investor in technology companies, he previously was a professor of epidemiology at UCLA. Wolfe is the author of The Viral Storm and has published over 100 scientific publications. His work has appeared in Nature, Science, The New York Times, The Economist, NPR, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Forbes, among others. A regular TED presenter, Wolfe’s honors include a Fulbright fellowship, NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and National Geographic Emerging Explorer. He received his doctorate in immunology and infectious diseases from Harvard in 1998.
Previously
As the COVID-19 virus began to burn across the globe last year, virologist Nathan Wolfe had been studying how viruses cross over from wild animals to humans. He was also among...