Kip Wainscott

Kip Wainscott is an experienced leader at the intersection of law, policy, and technology. As Executive Director for Global AI and Data Policy at JPMorgan Chase, Kip drives a firmwide strategy to advance outcomes across the public policy and regulatory landscape that enable responsible innovation. Previously, he was Head of Platform Policy at Snap Inc., where he led the development of Snap's product and content policies and engaged policymakers on rights-respecting approaches to managing digital risks. Kip worked in the White House under President Obama as Senior Director of Cabinet Affairs and Senior Advisor to the Domestic Policy Council, where he was a member of the National Science and Technology Council subcommittee on AI and Machine Learning. He was also Senior Counsel in the Office of Legal Policy at the US Department of Justice, where his work focused on the development of federal policies concerning emerging technologies. After leaving government, Kip led the Silicon Valley office of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and worked at Stanford University, where he was Associate Director at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center, Director of Program for the Global Digital Policy Incubator, and a fellow with the Digital Civil Society Lab.