Paul Knowles is Head of the Advisory Council at The Human Colossus Foundation, a non-profit technological organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland. His reputation as a decentralised semantics expert and innovator stems from a 25-year career in pharmaceutical biometrics, where he has worked with companies including Roche, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen, and Pfizer. Paul is the Inputs and Semantics working group lead at the Trust over IP Foundation, a testbed for decentralised technologies, including Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA), a next-generation core public utility technology he invented to harmonise data semantics across data models and data representation formats.