Jaison Morgan is the Managing Principal of The Common Pool and Co-Founder of RAMPIT Software. He's been recognized by the BBC as "the world's expert" in designing incentives to drive innovative breakthroughs. He helped establish a lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study how targeted rewards can be used to induce new approaches to engineering challenges. He was the former head of prize development for the X PRIZE Foundation, where he led teams to deliver multiple cash bounties of $10 million or more for solutions to common causes. Mr. Morgan completed graduate studies at the University of Chicago and is a frequent lecturer on the subject of "Incentive Engineering."

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