Dex Hunter-Torricke

Why can't we fix these things?

And the answer was structural.

It will never be in position to do those things, probably.

I mean, throughout history, nations have agreed to compromises, to alliances, to international institutions that do constrain their actions in some ways.

when they believe it's ultimately in their national interest.

So obviously you have things like the European Union, you have NATO, you have the oldest international organization, the International Postal Union, literally the rules of how you get posts delivered from one country to another.

So we have all these things, right?

Air safety.

But like the UN is something that was crafted for a very narrow strand of things.

And over time, you know, the nature of the actors behind that has shifted enormously.

And of course, we're in a moment now, right?

Where the United States, which had at least a rhetorical commitment to advancing, you know, political liberalization, has very clearly chosen to take a different path, which I'm sure we'll get to.

But after the time I was at the UN, I thought, this is not going to work, at least not for me.

I don't feel I'm having an impact.

Where can I go?

Tech seemed the obvious place to go, a place which has lots of resources, and technology clearly is one of those other motors of transformation in the world.

It's something that should be deeply hopeful and about fixing a bunch of these problems.

So what did you study in university?

What are the two degrees?

I did politics, and then for my master's I went and did Russian studies.