Joi Ito

Joichi "Joi" Ito is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, writer, and scholar focusing on the transformation of society and technology. Ito is the director of the Center for Radical Transformation at the Chiba Institute of Technology. He served as director of the MIT Media Lab from 2011 to 2019. Ito was previously the chief executive of Creative Commons and a board member at The New York Times, Sony, the Knight Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, ICANN, and The Mozilla Foundation.