Kristin Schneeman is senior director on the FasterCures team at the Milken Institute, where she oversees most policy and programmatic activities, focused on improving the research and development environment, engaging patients in research and health, and accelerating innovation. Among other initiatives, she leads The Research Acceleration and Innovation Network program, which provides a platform for knowledge sharing and relationship building to support the growth of venture philanthropy in medical research.

Schneeman has more than 30 years' experience in public policy, politics, academia, and the media. She served as a senior adviser and policy director to a gubernatorial candidate in Massachusetts, as a policy aide to a US Congressman, and as the front-line manager and chief-of-staff for a senior adviser to Vice President Al Gore. At Harvard University she directed research projects on future challenges facing governments, and on complex negotiations in business, politics, and international relations. Schneeman began her career as a producer of documentary films, for which she was the recipient of an Emmy Award in 1990.