Bio
Denise Hearn is the director of strategic initiatives at the Long Now Foundation, an organization dedicated to inspiring long-term thinking to preserve possibilities for the future.
She is also an author, applied researcher, and adviser on economic policy and planetary-aligned governance. She is currently a fellow at the Berggruen Institute, researching nature-related data governance. Her advisory work with governments, financial institutions, companies and non-profits has focused on economic policy, market regulation and organizational strategy.
Denise is co-author of The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians (2024), commissioned by McGill University, and of The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition, named one of the Financial Times’ Best Books of 2018. Denise’s work has been endorsed by Nobel Prize-winning economists and former governors of central banks, and has been translated into 12 languages. Her work has been featured in the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Globe and Mail, Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Washington Post and many others.
She has spoken globally at venues such as the Oxford Union, Goethe Institute, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (Hong Kong), the International Women’s Forum and leading global financial institutions, among others.
Denise has an MBA from the Oxford Saïd Business School and a B.A. in international studies from Baylor University.