Jonathan Hirasawa Ashton is a marketing and communications leader with a background in technology law, who has spent more than twenty years - the last fifteen in the Gulf - helping organisations understand and adopt emerging technology. He holds an LLM in Technology, Media & Telecommunications Law from Queen Mary University of London, with a dissertation on AI, ethics and intellectual property, alongside executive study at Oxford's Saïd Business School and an MA from the University of Glasgow.
He writes the Common Ground newsletter, and a growing series of plain-English guides that make new technology feel obvious rather than intimidating. Born in Britain and based in Dubai, he believes most people don't need to become experts in AI - they just need to know how to ask.
He writes the Common Ground newsletter, and a growing series of plain-English guides that make new technology feel obvious rather than intimidating. Born in Britain and based in Dubai, he believes most people don't need to become experts in AI - they just need to know how to ask.
