Mike Nelson is a senior fellow in the Carnegie Endowment’s Technology and International Affairs Program, which helps decision makers understand and address the impacts of emerging technologies, including digital technologies, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining Carnegie, he worked on technology policy at Cloudflare, IBM, Bloomberg, Georgetown University, and Microsoft. Prior to that, he worked with Al Gore in the U.S. Senate and at the White House. He has a Ph.D. from MIT and a B.S. from Caltech. (For more, follow Mike at @MikeNelson on Twitter.)
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For more than thirty-five years, I have been working to help governments make the Internet bigger, more versatile, and more responsive to the needs of citizens around the world. As a technologist, I have brought a perspective about what technology can and cannot do to discussions often dominated by lawyers, marketing people, and activists.
Fields of expertise: Science policy, technology and innovation policy
