Jack Stewart is a senior reporter at Marketplace, an American Public Media radio show heard by 14.8 million people across the US, and available by podcast around the world. Based in Los Angeles, he covers transportation and sustainability, examining how new modes of mobility will impact our lives, cities, and wider environment.

Previously Jack was a senior transportation writer at WIRED. He has a degree in engineering which makes him a good fit to report on autonomous and electric vehicles.

Before WIRED, Jack spent 15 years working for the BBC, initially in London, from where he was sent to Baghdad and Basra in 2003 to cover the conflict in Iraq. In 2006 he was asked to become the host of Science in Action, the longest running program on BBC World Service radio.

Jack's been a speaker and moderator at SXSW, The Aspen Ideas Festival, The Atlantic's Big Science Summit, and the BBC's World Changing Ideas Summit. He is a co-author on a scientific paper “On the future of transportation in an era of automated and autonomous vehicles,” published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Jack Stewart spoke at Ideas Abu Dhabi 2019, where he moderated Moonshot 4: “Faster, further, For All? The Future of Transport”

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In March 2019, Ideas Abu Dhabi welcomed some of the brightest and most interesting minds from the UAE and around the world to discuss four of the most important moonshot challenges facing our planet. The event was inspired by the world-famous Aspen Ideas Festival that has been taking place in Colorado since 2005, as a place for scientists, artists, politicians, business leaders, historians and educators to discuss some of the most fascinating ideas of our time. Ideas Abu Dhabi 2019 topics included: “From New World Order to None: Evolution and crisis in global relations”, “The Brain: Unfolding the mystery”, “Cyber: The new battleground?” and “Faster, Further, For All? The future of transport”.