Professor Andrew Maynard is Director of the Arizona State University Future of Being Human initiative, a professor in the ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and former Associate Dean, Arizona State University College of Global Futures,. He is the author of Future Rising: A Journey from the Past to the Edge of Tomorrow, and Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies. His research focuses on the nexus between technology, society, and the future. He also directs the Arizona State University Risk Innovation Nexus, is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a member of the Research Council, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Professor Maynard was formerly, Co-Chair of the Nanotechnology Health and Environment Implications working group, a part of the US National Nanotechnology Initiative. He is the former chair, University of Michigan Environmental Health Sciences Dept, and former Science Advisor to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Project on Emerging Technologies and Synthetic Biology Project. He has served on advisory boards and committees that include the Center for Environmental Impacts of Nanotechnology, the National Informal STEM Education Network, the Council of Canadian Academies, the US EPA, and various National Academies of Science committees.

He has a BSc in physics from the Birmingham University, UK, and a PhD in physics from Cambridge University, UK.