As the editor-in-chief of Wired, Nicholas Thompson is staking out a bold, optimistic vision for covering, and responding to, the changing realm of digital culture. From artificial intelligence to entertainment, privacy to social media, ethics to war, Thompson leads the news cycle. Thompson served previously as a senior editor at Wired from 2005–2010. Thompson has also played a pivotal role with The New Yorker—first as senior editor, then as editor of the magazine’s digital platform. Earlier in his career, Thompson worked as a Senior Editor at Legal Affairs, an editor at the Washington Monthly, and co-founded The Atavist, the National Magazine Award-winning publishing company. He earned the 21st Century Leader Award from The National Committee on American Foreign Policy, was a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Thompson graduated from Stanford University, where he was a United States Truman Scholar.

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Nick Thompson spoke at Ideas Abu Dhabi 2019, where he moderated Moonshot 3: “Cyber: The New Battleground?”

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”.