Lead, Neuro-Policy and Senior Fellow for Brain Health and Society
Rice University
Harris Eyre is a Senior Fellow at Rice University and UTMB, Visiting Senior Fellow at Wharton Neuroscience, Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company.
Harris is a physician, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and strategist. Harris is widely credited for pioneering the brain economy transition. He is dedicated to fostering awareness, data, tools, investment, and leadership to drive the transition. To do this, he works sectors and industries.
He 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 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).
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.
Healthcare Leadership in the Brain Economy
Monday, March 2, 2026
10:00am - 11:30am CT