Dex Hunter-Torricke

Dex Hunter-Torricke is founder and president of the Center for Tomorrow, a global nonprofit addressing AI governance, and serves as a non-executive board member for HM Treasury. Over nearly two decades, he has shaped communications for some of the world's most influential technology leaders, including roles as Mark Zuckerberg's personal speechwriter at Facebook, senior director of communications at SpaceX, and head of communications at Google DeepMind, where he worked alongside Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis. His sessions equip organisations to navigate AI-driven transformation through practical policy frameworks, scenario planning, and coalition-building strategies that prepare leaders to adapt, govern responsibly, and secure a voice in shaping society's technological future.

From late-night strategy sessions with Mark Zuckerberg to leading communications at Google DeepMind alongside Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis, Dex Hunter-Torricke spent nearly two decades advising the founders and leaders shaping the world's most consequential technology companies. That journey through the inner workings of Facebook, SpaceX, Google, and the United Nations gave him an unparalleled view of how artificial intelligence and digital transformation are reshaping economies, societies, and geopolitics. Now, he has turned that insight outward, founding the Center for Tomorrow, a global nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that far more voices have a say in building the future we all share.

Dex's career has taken him from the office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, where he began as a speechwriter and spokesperson in 2008, to the heart of Silicon Valley's most ambitious ventures. From 2012 to 2016, he led executive communications at Facebook and served as Mark Zuckerberg's personal speechwriter, before moving to SpaceX as Senior Director of Communications. He later became Vice President of Global Communications and Public Engagement at the Oversight Board, the independent body making decisions on Meta's most challenging content issues, and went on to head communications at Google DeepMind, one of the world's leading artificial intelligence research organisations. He also served as Google's first executive speechwriter, supporting CEO Larry Page and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, and is a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter. Dex now serves as a non-executive board member for HM Treasury, the UK's economic and finance ministry, and holds degrees in politics from University College London and Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford.

Through the Center for Tomorrow, Dex works to bridge the gap between technological progress and the policy frameworks, leadership capacity, and public engagement societies urgently need to navigate AI-driven change. His sessions equip organisations with practical tools for scenario planning, coalition building, and governance design, helping leaders across sectors prepare for economic disruption, geopolitical complexity, and the ethical challenges posed by advanced AI. Drawing on firsthand experience advising Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, and senior UN officials, he offers audiences a rare combination of insider knowledge and independent perspective. Whether speaking to corporate executives, policymakers, or civil society leaders, Dex delivers actionable strategies for adapting to transformation, governing responsibly, and ensuring that technological progress serves the many, not the few.