Robin has been a long-time friend and advisor to Consensus Point, going all the way back to 1994, when he collaborated with Ken Kittlitz, our CTO, on the first web-based prediction market software platform. Since that time, Robin has been credited as the “father of prediction markets” and is responsible for many of the ideas and technologies that have become commonplace in prediction markets today. He has written and spoken widely on the application of prediction markets to business and policy and has been mentioned in over one hundred press articles on the subject.

At Consensus Point, he will continue to develop innovative new technologies and market mechanisms as we continually enhance our market-leading Foresight Server and Foresight On Demand enterprise software platforms. Additionally, he will work directly with customers, advising on market design, quantitative analysis, and best practices.

In addition to his role at Consensus Point, Robin is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. Robin received a B.S. in physics from the University of California, Irvine in 1981, an M.S. in physics and an M.A. in Conceptual Foundations of Science from the University of Chicago in 1984, and a Ph.D. in social science from Caltech in 1997. He also hosts a group blog entitled Overcoming Bias.