J. Paul Neeley is a Designer and Researcher based in London. He has a background in Service Design, Speculative Design, Design Research, and Strategy. J. Paul has worked professionally at Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation as Service Designer & Researcher focusing on the healthcare experience and delivery, at Teton Radiology as Service Design Manager realizing innovative medical imaging solutions, and at Unilever in Consumer & Market Insights on brand development. J. Paul's current design work explores the social, cultural, economic, and ethical implications of emerging technologies, designing speculative futures that help us engage with possibility as a way of reframing and understanding anew our current state. Recent projects have focused on climate change, happiness, healthcare & wellbeing, self quantification, future mobility, AI, synthetic biology, and issues of complexity and computational irreducibility in design and business. J. Paul consults in Service & Speculative Design at Neeley Worldwide, with his current focus on Parlia, a company building an encyclopedia of the world's opinions to improve civil discourse and winner of a Google DNI Grant. He also teaches at the School of Critical Design, an experimental design studio focused on critical issues facing humanity for the next 1,000 years, and runs Masamichi Souzou, an organization working on the optimization of happiness through the consideration of everything. He is a tutor in Service Design at the Royal College of Art, and has been a guest lecturer and critic at Imperial College: Computer Science, RCA: Design Interactions, RISD, Architectural Association: Diploma 12, NYU: ITP, Köln International School of Design, and SVA: Design for Social Innovation. J. Paul holds an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art where he studied with Tony Dunne & Fiona Raby, and is a graduate of Northwestern University where he studied Communications Studies with a concentration in Economics. He enjoys playing the cello, walking, chess, naps, beaches, blank sheets of paper, and thinking.