Anthony D Williams

Anthony D. Williams is a best-selling author, speaker and consultant who helps organizations harness the power of collaborative innovation in business, government and society. He is the co-author of the groundbreaking bestseller Wikinomics and the much-anticipated follow-up MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World.

Anthony is currently a visiting fellow with the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and a senior fellow for innovation with the Lisbon Council in Brussels. Among other appointments, he is a committee member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Science for the EPA’s Future. He is also an advisor to GovLoop, the world’s largest social network for government innovators and a founding fellow of the OpenForum Academy, a global research initiative focused on understanding the impact of open standards and open source on business and society.

As a senior fellow at nGenera Insight, Anthony previously founded and led the world’s definitive investigation into the impact of Web 2.0 and wikinomics on the future of governance and democracy. His work has been featured in publications such as BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, the Huffington Post, and the Globe and Mail. He has advised both Fortune 500 firms and international institutions, including the World Bank and the OECD. Anthony holds a Masters in Research in Political Science from the London School of Economics and lives in Toronto with his wife and two children.