Daniel Erasmus is a member of the Club of Rome, as well as a member of the AI Expert Group under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He conceived of and led the development of ClimateGPT, the world’s first foundational AI model focused on climate change. Released at COP28, ClimateGPT was open-sourced at Davos 2024, followed by ClimateGPT 2 at Davos 2025.
Erasmus is Founder and CEO of Erasmus.AI, a global sense-making platform that enables users to see domain overviews to discover and track tensions inherent in news, patents, open-access research, medicine, taxation, and related fields. It has been used by Fortune 10 companies to identify multi-billion-dollar unknown risks and opportunities, empowering decision-makers to view information through a game-changing, visually interactive interface.
Daniel is a seasoned leader in global transformation with over 25 years’ experience guiding private and public institutions. He has helped a city transition to a low-carbon economy, enabled a major bank to prepare for the 2008 financial crisis, and developed scenarios that informed the first Central Bank Digital Currencies in 2015, as well as blockchain and AI policies. Erasmus also redesigned a groundbreaking innovation system for an oil supermajor, and he and his team led COVID-19 food security interventions in Southern Africa, reaching millions.
Daniel serves on advisory boards including the University of Stellenbosch Faculty of Science, Titan Advanced Energy Solutions, and the Quad9 Foundation. He earned a degree in Electronic-Industrial Engineering and an MBA/MBI from the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University.
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