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ECONOMY MONITOR reflects Percy Venegas’ peer-reviewed, pioneering research into Trust Asymmetry and its implications for decentralized and advanced intelligence. This research has been presented to peers at MIT Sloan, the University of Quebec, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, among other world research centres.  

Percy has been active in academia, industry, and the non-profit sectors for over two decades. He is a former Intel engineer, leading teams that planned, sourced, executed installation, and operated the robotic systems used to test microchips in the manufacturing floors across Intel globally. In this role, he led the statistical process control group, a precursor to modern machine learning systems. Previously, he trained at Photocircuits, Long Island, New York.

Alongside Fernand Gobet, he leads the project "Autonomous Hypotheses Generation and Investment Decision Making" at the London School of Economics. Prof.Gobet is a pioneer of the study of expertise (in human and machine intelligent systems), which he initiated as part of the research group of the late Nobel Prize Laureate Herbert Simon. The group at the LSE focuses on applied AI (genetic programming) in fields such as ESG & alternative finance, macro risk, and behaviour of traders at every expertise level (i.e., from non-professional meme investors to algorithmic autonomous agents).

Percy serves in non-profit initiatives that seek to create awareness about AI's impact on society and address related safety concerns: as a trustee at FairAi; as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on AI Policy and Complex Systems, Policy Studies Organization Washington, DC; and as a member of the board of the Quantum Center, an educational initiative about quantum AI (i.e., quantum language models) and quantum security.  

Percy is an engineer in electronics and holds an MBA in International Business from MIB School in Trieste, Italy. He attended the MIT Sloan China Program, Lingnan University College at Sun-Yat Sen University in Guangzhou, earned an Executive Master in Sustainable Development and Corporate Responsibility from EOI, Campus Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and completed the Artificial Intelligence Programme at the Said Business School (University of Oxford). Other graduate studies include Philosophy (Epistemology, Ethics, and Mind, at The University of Edinburgh), Finance and Banking (at King's College London), and Software Engineering and Systems Security (at Oxford). He earned certificates in extreme risk modeling and risk management from the Real World Risk Institute (Raphael Douady, Robert J. Frey, Nassim Nicholas Taleb), Complex Systems volatility risk and uncertainty (New England Complex Systems Institute), Quantum Computing (Oxford), Computer Networks (CISCO), Financial Trading (King’s Business School), Agile (Scrum Alliance), Policy Design and Delivery (Harvard Extension), AI Ethics (LSE).

Percy was a member of the Founding Advisory Board of the Social Enterprise/Social Venture Capital Conference, Latin America, Caribbean, and South Florida, in Miami. He has traveled across Latin America, Europe, Asia, and North America, gaining hands-on experience in several industries and domains, advising projects, and launching ventures.

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