Stephen Reid is a technologist and facilitator who has trained in the fields of AI/ML, complexity science, physics, transformative coaching and insight meditation. Current projects include leading the development of Dandelion, writing a book on Technological Metamodernism, and serving on the management team of the Emerge Institute.

Previously, he founded The Psychedelic Society, which established the first legal psilocybin retreat programme in Europe. Stephen has an MPhys in Physics from the University of Oxford, where he specialised in quantum field theory, an MRes in Complexity Science from the University of Bristol, and a Professional Certificate in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from UC Berkeley.

He lives with his wife Laura and daughter Runa in Stockholm, Sweden, where he enjoys swimrunning in the archipelago.