Hi, I'm Isaak.

I'm a researcher working on the economics and governance of technological transitions, currently focused on transformative AI. This summer I'm joining the Oxford Martin Programme on Forecasting Technological Change as a postdoc, working with the Institute for New Economic Thinking on how technologies diffuse and how to anticipate their large-scale impacts.

Before that I completed my PhD at the University of Amsterdam on the structure of economic development and technological transitions, and led research at Arcadia Impact's AI Governance Taskforce on AI incident monitoring and crisis preparedness.

In my private life, I either collect music  or dance (contact) improvisation.
From time to time, I post some of my thoughts on Substack. 

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You can reach me at i[dot]a.mengesha[a]gmail.com