Jonah is a philosopher and interdisciplinary thinker, co-lead of the Life Itself Research collective, curator of the Second Renaissance initiative and host of Second Renaissance London gatherings.

He studied Physics and Philosophy at Oxford, before going on to do an MA in Continental Philosophy and a PhD in the Philosophy of Consciousness at University of Essex.

Since then, alongside a career at the intersection of finance and data science, he has been an independent scholar and writer, working across disciplines such as philosophy, cognitive science, physics, complexity science, religion and spirituality, art and literature.