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Michael Wright

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Michael Wright is the CEO of Intercepting Horizons and founder of Biomimetics International, an industry member association that builds cross-sector infrastructure collaboration to create nature-inspired solutions at scale. His work is inspired by nature’s nearly 4 billion years of R&D to build market-ready strategies across technology-driven industries, regenerative agriculture, and smart technologies. He also served as President of Nasdaq-listed Entegris (ENTG), Senior Vice President at GCA, and founder of Wright Williams & Kelly, where he co-developed and commercialised the cost-of-ownership modelling that became the basis of the SEMI E35 standard. He is a co-author of The Exponential Era (2020) and The New Business Normal (2005).

Michael Wright

Jun 27 2026

The big split: The cost of leaving the living

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Nature · Social Responsibility

We are the only species that tried to leave the world that made it. The bill for that departure is now due

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Recent publications

Michael Wright

Jun 14 2026

Corporate Governance · Public Governance

The bond that won't break

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Jun 10 2026

Nature · Overall

TOP 10 Most-Read Thought Leaders in Nature

Michael Wright

May 10 2026

Nature · Environmental Sustainability

Four billion years of answers. Two hundred years of the wrong questions

Michael Wright

May 07 2026

Environmental Sustainability · Sustainable Business

Regenerative audacity

Michael Wright

Apr 25 2026

Nature · Sustainable Investment

Biomimetics: De-risking the future by borrowing nature’s playbook

Michael Wright

Apr 07 2026

Nature · Climate Change

Sustainability has two forces and one revolution

Michael Wright

Mar 15 2026

Effects · Climate Change

You're not saving money by deferring sustainability. Your grandchildren are paying for it

Michael Wright

Feb 27 2026

Corporate Governance · Corporate Sustainability

The compounding cost of ignoring resilience

Michael Wright

Dec 15 2025

Human Rights · Ethical Governance

Digital water

Michael Wright

Dec 03 2025

Agriculture · Environmental Sustainability

The next agricultural revolution

Michael Wright

Nov 17 2025

Biodiversity · Nature

From extractive to adaptive: Biomimetics as a board-level strategy for product design & manufacturing

Michael Wright

Nov 01 2025

Nature · Regeneration

Saving agriculture isn’t found outside of nature

Michael Wright

Oct 25 2025

Sustainable Business · Sustainable Finance

Nature’s lessons for a sustainable economy

Michael Wright

Oct 10 2025

Ethical Governance · Social Responsibility

Breaking the digital manor: Pathways beyond AI feudalism

Michael Wright

Oct 03 2025

Ethical Governance · Social Responsibility

The new digital feudalism: How AI oligopolies are reshaping global power

Michael Wright

Sep 30 2025

Ethical Governance · Social Responsibility

Ethical AI as catalyst

Michael Wright

Sep 19 2025

Sustainable Finance · Sustainable Investment

Why AI needs a mother’s instinct

Michael Wright

Sep 10 2025

Nature · Corporate Social Responsibility

The nature protocol: Why biomimetics could determine the future of corporate sustainability

The words 'dream big' written on a black wall

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