Ajay is an economist and professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.  He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts; an academic advisory council member at the Center on Regulation and markets at Brookings in Washington, DC; an advisory board member at Carnegie Mellon University’s Block Center for Technology and Society in Pittsburgh; a Fellow at the Digital Economy Lab at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California; and a faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Toronto.  Ajay conducts research on the economics of innovation and is coauthor of two best-selling books on the economics of artificial intelligence: “Prediction Machines” and “Power & Prediction,” both published by Harvard Business Review Press. 

He is the founder of the Creative Destruction Lab, a not-for-profit program with a mission to enhance the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind. Startup graduates of the program have created over $30B in equity value to date. Ajay is a co-founder and partner of Intrepid Growth Partners, a growth equity investment fund focused on the commercial application of artificial intelligence. He is a co-founder of Sanctuary that has a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots.  Ajay was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2022.