Biography
Harris is a physician, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and systems strategist advancing the brain economy transition — an economic paradigm that prioritizes investment in brain capital across the lifespan to drive resilience, productivity, innovation, and inclusive growth.
Brain capital integrates brain health and brain skills as foundational economic assets for the AI era.
His work focuses on coordinating and catalyzing scientific, financial, policy institutions and ecosystems needed to operationalize the brain economy transition.
He is the Executive Director of the Global Brain Economy Initiative, the Harry Z Yan and Weiman Gao Senior Fellow at Rice University, Presidential Senior Fellow at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), and Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company and the McKinsey Health Institute. He is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative and an advisor to the MD Anderson Cancer Neuroscience Program.
He has contributed to multidisciplinary efforts developing and advancing the Brain Capital Index, brain-lens investing, brain-positive cities, workplace brain capital dynamics, and brain economy science.
He co-chairs the Nature Medicine Commission on Brain Health for Economic Resilience, supports the World Economic Forum (WEF) Brain Economy Action Forum, and is a member of the Steering Committee of Project Metis (the Houston Brain Economy Transition Initiative). Previously, he co-authored the WEF Brain Economy Insights Report and the President of Cameroon-endorsed Yaoundé Declaration. He co-led the OECD Neuroscience-Inspired Policy Initiative.
Eyre is an alumnus of the Fulbright Scholar program where he studied at UCLA. He has authored more than 200 publications spanning neuroscience, economics, policy, and systems innovation. He was the lead editor of Convergence Mental Health (Oxford University Press).
