Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor emerita at Harvard Business School (HBS). She taught at HBS and Harvard Law School for decades, beginning in 1981. She is a philosopher, scholar, and author who received her BA in philosophy from the University of Chicago and her PhD in social psychology from Harvard University. She has authored two other books, both of which explore the relationship of computers, technology, and economics: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power, which was published in 1989, and The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism, which was co-authored with James Maxmin and published in 2004. Zuboff completed 12 years of research from 2006-2018 to write The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, conducting her own interviews with businessmen and employees of technology firms to gain an understanding of the mechanics of surveillance capitalism on the ground and supplement her theoretical analysis.

With her background and extensive research, Shoshana Zuboff is positioned as a unique authority on the phenomenon of surveillance capitalism.