Jonathan Ledgard is a thinker in the fields of risk, advanced technologies, and the ecological future—particularly in the context of capital allocation. For many years, he worked as a foreign correspondent for The Economist magazine, later becoming a director at EPFL, where he developed projects in the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, and drone infrastructure in the tropics. He is the co-creator of a drone-based drug delivery system—now used in more than ten countries—and the author of the "droneport" concept, which was designed in collaboration with Norman Foster. Under the pen name J. M. Ledgard, he is an acclaimed novelist. His books Giraffe and Submergence were both named books of the year; Submergence was even adapted to film by Wim Wenders in Hollywood. In the past, he also served as a visiting professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague.