Shiv Malik is a technologist, award nominated broadcaster, author and former investigative journalist. He began his career in 2004 reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan and subsequently worked for the Guardian for five years breaking exclusive front page stories on everything from UK government social policy to secret ISIS documents. He co-founded the Intergenerational Foundation think tank and is the author of the 2010 cult economics tract, Jilted Generation and the 2019 non-fiction book The Messenger. His 2020 true crime Audible original podcast of the same name was nominated for an Ambie award.
In mid-2017 he joined the Web3 space as an adviser to the Golem project and was appointed Head of Growth for the Streamr project where he spent three years co-creating a revolutionary framework for monetising personal data. In 2021 he founded Pool and as CEO he now leads the organisation to build a federation of Data Unions so that digital citizens can reclaim control of their data and have a genuine equity stake in the digital economy in the decades to come.
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