New York University
Clay Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. A keen and often-quoted observer, his regular columns appear in Business 2.0, FEED, OpenP2P.com and ACM Net_Worker, and his writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Wired, Release 1.0, Computerworld, and IEEE Computer. Mr. Shirky frequently speaks on emerging technologies at a variety of forums and organizations, including PC Forum, the Internet Society, the Department of Defense, the BBC, the American Museum of the Moving Image, the Highlands Forum, the Economist Group, Storewidth, the World Technology Network, and several O'Reilly conferences. Prior to his appointment at NYU, where he teaches courses on the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology, Mr. Shirky was a Partner at the investment firm The Accelerator Group in 1999-2001. Mr. Shirky graduated from Yale College with a degree in art, and began his professional career as a theater director and designer in New York.
