J. TUNNINGLEY

My craft is building the coalitions, institutions, & capital to accelerate frontier breakthroughs and tackle humanity’s greatest challenges.

I'm currently thinking about AI-assisted civic governance, neurotech, engaged buddhism, creativity tripwires, kiteloops, altinha, forró, cacao, & miegakure. 

• CURRENT

  • Protocol Labs

    • Strategic Philanthropy & Field Building Lead, 

    • Economies & Governance Co-Lead

  • Principal, Semafor World Economy

  • Creator, For When You Are [Coming Soon]

• PROJECTS I SUPPORT 

  • Simocracy 

  • Visao Vidigal

  • Cometa

• EXPERIENCE 

  • Senior Advisor, The Architect Institute & Architect Systems Capital Management

  • UK Diplomat & Civil Servant [Asia, Middle East, Africa]

  • Private Secretary, Dame Antonia Romeo DCB 

  • International Security Studies Research, RUSI

  • Avec Capital

• FELLOW

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

• ADVISORY

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

• MENTOR / COUNCIL

  • Oxford University Crankstart Programme | FLC, World Wide Web Foundation (wound down)

• ALUMNI

  • Oxford University (Full Blue, Football) 

• INTERESTS

  • Kitesurfing, alpinism, freeskiing, climbing, muay thai, skydiving, mindfulness, psychedelics, ghost writing, rap, altinha, sinology, dialeticism

• LANGUAGES

  • Coherent: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Brazilian Portguese

  • Mostly incoherent: Japanese, Italian, German, Papiamento

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