Dr. Laurence B. Mussio is one of Canada’s foremost strategic historians of business, technology, and economics. As Special Advisor to the Office of the CEO at BMO Financial Group, and through collaborations with top North Atlantic organizations such as the RAND Corporation, he provides leaders with the critical context to navigate an era of profound disruption. 

As co-founder and Chair of the Long Run Institute, Dr. Mussio spearheads major initiatives on the long-run dynamics of Artificial Intelligence and national productivity. Another major initiative involves developing innovative and more effective new ways of understanding risk in a volatile geopolitical and technologically-enabled environment. This work is highlighted by an influential series of articles, co-authored with Cosimo Pacciani, Research Director and senior executive at Poste Italiane, that will begin to be published in September in The Globe and Mail and La Stampa. 

An engaged public intellectual, Dr. Mussio shaped elite discourse in 2025 with a number of influential op-eds in The Globe and Mail. He has published six books, among them the seminal Telecom Nation: Telecommunications, Computers and Governments in Canada and the two-volume Whom Fortune Favours: The Bank of Montreal and the Rise of North American Finance, both published by McGill-Queen's University Press. 

He is currently the Co-Chair Epics and Epochs, a major North Atlantic conference in Rome for March 2026, a collaboration between Poste Italiane, major North Atlantic partners, and the Long Run Institute, examining megatrends and the evolution of leadership and risk. Dr. Mussio is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK). Fluent in English, French, and Italian, with an intermediate knowledge of German, he lives in Toronto and the Italian north east.