Ambassador Karen Kornbluh is a Senior Advisor for Emerging Technology at the Milken Institute. She served until January as Principal Deputy White House Chief Technology Officer and Director of the National Artificial Intelligence Office. She served as Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development under President Barack Obama, spearheading the first global internet policymaking principles and launching the OECD Gender Initiative. Previously he served as a senior official at the Treasury Department and Federal Communications Commission, where she negotiated early internet policies. She started her career in the private sector as an economist at forecasting firm Townsend-Greenspan and provided strategic consulting to Fortune 100 companies at Telesis. She served as Executive Vice President at Nielsen, the global data firm. Ambassador Kornbluh chaired the boards of both the Open Technology Fund and Radio Free Europe and ran programs on technology and society at the Council on Foreign Relations, New America, and the German Marshall Fund of the US. She is a Washingtonian “Tech Titan,” and was profiled in a New York Times article titled “Fighting for Economic Equality.“ Her articles have appeared in an array of 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 and serves on the Maryland Economic Commission.