Episodes

Dr. Nancy Potok served as the Chief Statistician of the United States until January of this year, 2020. She has over 30 years of leadership experience in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Nancy also served as a comm...

Christian Catalini is Chief Economist of the Libra Association, on leave from MIT, and a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER. Dante Disparte is vice chairman and Head of Policy and Communications at the Libra Association, and cur...

Felipe Hoffa, developer advocate, and software engineer at Google. Felipe is originally from Chile and is now based in San Francisco and around the world. If you're involved in big data and data science, you may recognize him...

Michael Beckerman currently serves as Vice President and head of US public policy at TikTok, a position he has held since March. He previously was the founding President and CEO of the Internet Association, a Washington, DC b...

Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and at the St...

Alexandra Givens is President and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology. Prior to CDT, Alexandra taught at Georgetown Law School where she founded the Institute for Technology Law and Policy and led Georgetown's Tech...

Eric Goldman is a professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law. He co-directs the High Tech Law Institute. He's on a short list of North American IP thought leaders and has been named an IP Vanguard by the Califor...

Robert Shea served as a commissioner on the Evidence Based Policy Commission. Prior to that, he chaired the National Academy of Public Administration, which puts out a lot of great publications on public administration, of al...

Samm Sacks is the Cyber Policy Fellow at New America and a Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Center. Her research focuses on emerging information and communication technology policies globally, particularly...

Carl Shapiro is Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. He's also the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy Emeritus at the Haas School of Business...

Amy Davine Kim is the chief policy officer for the Chamber of Digital Commerce. Prior to joining the chamber, she advised financial institutions, blockchain based companies, marketplace lenders, investors and innovators regar...

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser was sworn in as the state's 39th Attorney General on January 8th, 2019. Before running for office, he served as the Hatfield Professor of Law and Dean of the University of Colorado Law Sc...

Yasheng Huang is the Epic Foundation professor of international management and faculty director of action learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His previous appointments include faculty positions at the University o...

Kip Viscusi is University distinguished professor at Vanderbilt with appointments in the economics department, the management school and the law school. He previously was Kogan professor of law and economics and director of t...

Cat Zakrzewski is a technology policy reporter for the Washington Post and authors the technology 202 newsletter. She previously reported for the Wall Street Journal, Pro Venture Capital. Her work has been published in Tech C...

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. Seth is an author, data scientist and speaker who studies what we can learn about people from new internet data sources. His 2017 book, Everybody Lies, was a New York Times best seller and an Economi...

Ina Fried is the chief technology correspondent for Axios, and before that she was a senior editor or writer at some of the most important tech journalism sites there are: Recode, All Things Digital, CNET and others.

Rob Pegoraro on Tech and the Coronavirus by Technology Policy Institute

Blair Levin is currently a nonresident fellow with the Brookings Institution and a policy advisor at New Street. Blair’s worked for the past 25 years at a high level at the intersection of broadband policy and capital markets...

Kelcee Griffis is a Washington, D.C.-based reporter covering the telecommunications industry for Law360, a legal trade wire read by some of the most powerful law firms and government agencies. Her reporting takes her to the F...

Bruce Mehlman is the founder of Mehlman, Castagnetti, Rosen and Thomas, a government relations firm here in DC. Prior to that he was assistant secretary of commerce for technology policy in the George W. Bush administration a...

Ambassador Koh is U.S. Representative and Head of Delegation to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) World Radio Communication (WRC) Conference 2019. She's also Special Advisor for International Communications and...

Brent Skorup is a lawyer and Senior Research Fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research areas include telecommunications, transportation, technology regulation, and wireless policy. He serves on ...

Executive editor of Communications Daily and telecom reporter extraordinare Jonathan Make joins Scott Wallsten and Sarah Oh in a discussion of the top telecom stories of 2019, including Julius Knapp's retirement, broadband ma...