Nicholas Wright

Dr Nicholas Wright is a neuroscientist and advisor to the Pentagon Joint Staff whose most recent book is Warhead: How the brain shapes war and war shapes the brain (St Martin's Press US, Pan Macmillan UK, 2025). He researches the brain, technology and security at University College London, Georgetown University, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the National Defense University in Washington DC. Currently working with governments and the private sector, Dr Wright was previously a neurology doctor in London and Oxford and has published many academic papers, which have been covered by the BBC, New York Times, and The Economist. His has edited two further books: Artificial Intelligence, China, Russia and the Global Order (Air University Press, 2019), and Human, Machine, War: How the Mind-Tech Nexus will win future wars (AUP, 2025). He has appeared on CNN and the BBC, and contributes to outlets like Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Atlantic, and Time.