Chris Riley

Disruptive internet policy engineer, beverage connoisseur, gregarious introvert, contrarian order Muppet, persistent optimist (somehow!), and proud husband & father. Not in order.Executive Director, Data Transfer Initiative; and Distinguished Research Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania. Formerly: R Street Institute (senior fellow, internet governance); Brave New Software (executive director); Mozilla (director, public policy); U.S. State Department (program manager, internet freedom team); Free Press (policy counsel); FCC (honors program attorney/advisor); American University School of International Service (adjunct professor); and JHU Computer Science (instructor). BS, Computer Science, Wheeling Jesuit University; PhD, Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University; JD, Yale Law School.Selected recent work: