Dr. Darius Meier
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Darius Meier is a Swiss-Indian economist and ethicist. He successfully defended his PhD thesis on “automation of human labor from an ethical perspective” and graduated with summa cum laude. As part of his PhD project, he undertook a research stay at Yale University from 2022 to 2023, and he has continued as a fellow there to date.
Previous to his PhD supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, he earned an economics degree at the University of Lucerne (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Schaltegger) and an interdisciplinary master’s degree in Religion-Economics-Politics from the Universities of Basel, Lucerne, and Zurich (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Huppenbauer / Dr. Omar Serrano). During his studies, he completed academic exchanges in Mexico (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), France (Université de Lille) and Slovenia (University of Ljubljana). Furthermore, he interned with different companies and organizations, among them BASF South-East Europe in Budapest, Hungary, and the staff of a minister of the Canton of Zurich.
Besides his academic pursuits, Darius Meier works at PwC Advisory in the fields of cybersecurity and automation. In recent years, he has published various articles on ethical opportunities and challenges in light of new technologies. Among others, he covered topics such as blockchain or advancing automation of human labor.
As an experienced communicator versed in German, English, Hindi, French, Spanish, and Brazilian-Portuguese, he is actively partaking in politics in the role of president of the economic committee of the FDP Canton Zurich, vice president of FDP Zollikon and member of the foreign policy committee of FDP Switzerland. Moreover, he is part of the Catholic Church board in the municipalities of Zollikon and Zumikon.
