Karen Kornbluh

Ambassador Karen Kornbluh is a thought leader on technology policy and former diplomat. She served most recently as Special Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy White House Chief Technology Officer where she was the Director of the National Artificial Intelligence Office. Kornbluh is now both the Senior Advisor for Emerging Technology at the Milken Institute and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Earlier in her career she served as US Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris and as a senior official at the Treasury Department and Federal Communications Commission. She chaired the boards of both the Open Technology Fund and Radio Free Europe, grantees of the US Agency for Global Media. Kornbluh started her career forecasting industrial production as an Economist at Townsend-Greenspan and then worked as a strategy consultant for US manufacturing firms. She was later Executive Vice President at global data firm Nielsen where she led global privacy, government and public affairs, and launched the Nielsen Foundation. Her articles have appeared widely in outlets including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, and Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, and serves on the Maryland Economic Commission.