Harris A. Eyre, MBBS, Ph.D. is a physician, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and strategist. He is widely credited for pioneering the brain economy transition and is dedicated to fostering awareness, data, tools, investment, and leadership to drive the transition. To do this, he works sectors and industries.
We are entering a new era shaped by the rise of the brain economy. The brain economy is an economic transition that prioritizes investment in brain capital across the lifespan. Brain capital is an asset that integrates brain health and brain skills to support societal resilience and inclusive growth. Fostering brain capital has the potential to unlock $26 trillion in global economic opportunities.
Eyre was the senior author of the first technical paper on the brain economy published in 2021, he co-led the OECD Neuroscience-Inspired Policy Initiative, and supported the development of the Global Brain Capital Dashboard, published via The Brookings Institution. The work continues to proliferate and mature, and Eyre works across the spectrum of research, to strategy, to movement building, to execution. In 2025, the World Economic Forum launched a Brain Economy Action Forum, the President of Cameroon endorsed The Yaoundé Declaration on the Brain Economy, and multi-national corporations and parliamentarians from various nations are collaborating actively.
Eyre is the Harry Z. Yan and Weiman Gao Senior Fellow for Brain Health and Society and senior advisor for neuroscience at Rice University's Office of Innovation. He is also a Baker Institute Rice Faculty Scholar and is adjunct with Rice's Neuroengineering Initiative and Psychological Sciences. He is a visiting senior fellow at the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, a senior advisor with McKinsey and Company, and advisor at MD Anderson's Cancer Neuroscience Program.
Eyre is an alumnus of the Forbes 30 Under 30 and the Fulbright Scholar program. He has garnered recognition with the EB1A Green Card, an honor typically reserved for Nobel and Pulitzer prize winners. He has authored over 200 papers and chapters in outlets such as Nature Medicine, The Lancet Neurology, Neuron, World Psychiatry, The Brookings Institution, and was the lead editor of the book 'Convergence Brain Health' (Oxford Press). His work has been covered in Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and the New York Times.
Beyond his professional achievements, Harris has authored a reflective short story titled "My Migraines are a Superpower." In his free time, he enjoys family time and activities such as mountain biking, meditation, and podcasts. He is originally from the Great Barrier Reef region of Australia.