James B. Glattfelder is a Swiss physicist, complexity researcher, and philosopher, known for his work on the history of science, the limits of knowledge, the foundations of reality, and the emergence of self-organization, as well as critiques of the global financial system. After completing his secondary education in economics at the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz in 1992, he studied physics at the ETH Zurich, earning a Master of Science in Theoretical High-Energy Physics in 1999.
Following a brief career in finance starting in 2002, Glattfelder completed his doctorate in 2010 at ETH Zurich, focusing on ownership networks and corporate control. His influential paper, co-authored with Stefania Vitali and Stefano Battiston, titled The Network of Global Corporate Control, garnered significant attention in both academic and mainstream media, highlighting the financial power of global actors. In 2019, he published Information – Consciousness – Reality, where he explores a new scientific paradigm centered around the concept of information, addressing profound existential questions. Glattfelder’s work continues to stimulate discourse across various fields, bridging complex systems and philosophical inquiry.
