Most recently, as founder and CEO of NewsFutures (2000-2010) Dr. Servan-Schreiber pioneered many business applications of prediction markets for dozens of leading companies on four continents.
NewsFutures’ work with prediction markets has been featured in the best-selling book "The Wisdom of Crowds" as well as in leading print media such as The New York Times, the Economist, BusinessWeek, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and Nature.
Emile has lectured widely on the topic of prediction markets and collective intelligence across the globe, including at the World Economic Forum in Davos, at Wharton Business School, the Collège de France (video), Frankfurt University and the City University of Hong Kong. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Prediction Markets.
Emile holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, both from Carnegie Mellon University.
