Prof. Dr. Igor Calzada, MBA, FeRSA, is a Full Professor in Social Sciences and Humanities (Unibasq) and Established Researcher (R3) (www.igorcalzada.com/publications). He works as a Principal Investigator in Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science) at the University of the Basque Country, Public Policy and Economic History Department (Spain), as well as at Cardiff University/WISERD (UK), being since 2022 a Fulbright Scholar in California (USA) collaborating as a Fellow with the Decentralization Research Centre (Canada). From 2012 to 2022, he was a Senior Scientist at the University of Oxford, European Commission DG Joint Research Centre, and UN-Habitat, and has held academic positions in 14 universities worldwide (particularly, UK, USA, and Spain). From 2002 to 2011, he worked at Mondragon Cooperatives and held a Director of Innovation and Technology position in the Basque Government (Spain). His research currently revolves around how decentralization as a paradigm shift can change the course of data-opolies and AI through emerging Web3 Decentralized Technologies including case studies in different fields around Blockchain, DAOs, and Data Co-operatives. Google Scholar: 4422 citations, an h-index of 30, and an i10-index of 65. He was nominated as one of Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential Academics in Government.