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As CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Adam Bly drives Seed Media Group's overall business and content strategy.
At the age of 16, Adam became the youngest researcher at the National Research Council of Canada, where he spent three years working with a team studying cell adhesion and cancer. While at NRC, Adam identified a cultural shift in the making: science is transforming business, politics, the arts and current affairs unlike ever before; today, science affects every single person on the planet and science literacy is essential to modern society. Adam set out to launch a new type of magazine that captured the ideas, issues and icons shaping this global science culture. With the receipt of the 2006 Independent Press Award for Best Science and Technology Coverage, it was noted that "the best comparison for Seed is the early years of Rolling Stone, when music was less a subject than a lens for viewing culture." Under Adam's leadership, the magazine received two National Magazine Award nominations in 2007, for Best Design and for General Excellence, the magazine industry's highest honor. Seed is now the flagship division of Seed Media Group, a science media company Adam founded in 2005 to extend the magazine's mission to other platforms and markets.
Adam is the recipient of numerous international prizes. In 2007, he was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is a recipient of the Golden Jubilee Medal from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and his achievements have been highlighted by former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, "for showing people the scope and power of science not just as an object of study but as a key to understanding the world around us." Adam has spoken around the world on the relationship between science and society in the 21st century, most notably at the World Economic Forum (Davos), STS Forum (Kyoto), DLD (Munich), OECD-MOST Conference (Beijing), ideaCity (Toronto), the National Academies of Science (Washington, DC), and the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and at universities including MIT, Columbia, McGill, and Peking. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science. He lives in New York. | 