JAMES H.R. TUNNINGLEY

My craft is designing & scaling market structures that tackle critical economic & systemic challenges. 

I'm currently thinking about the geopolitics & governance of global compute, sovereignty, creativity tripwires, kiteloops, cacao, & miegakure. 

• CURRENT

  • ARCHITECT

    • Architect Systems Capital Management | Senior Advisor 

    • Architect Systems Advisory | Co-Founder

  • Protocol Labs

    • Network Lead 

• FORMER

  • UK Diplomat 

  • International Security Studies Research, RUSI

  • Avec Capital LLC

• BOARD / ADVISORY

  • Crecimiento | MYCOMEUP | LEAD Edu | Station [acq. Coinbase]

• FELLOW

  • Royal Asiatic Society | Royal Society for Asian Affairs | 0xKernel | Pacific Forum

• MENTOR / COUNCIL

  • Oxford University Crankstart Programme | World Wide Web Foundation

• ALUMNI

  • Oxford University (Full Blue, Football) 

• INTERESTS

  • Kitesurfing, big mountains, freeskiing, climbing, muay thai, psychedelics, writing, sinology, dialeticism, rap

• LANGUAGES

  • Coherent: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, French 

  • Mostly incoherent: Japanese, Italian, German, Papiamento

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