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    How to update the default settings of government, by former CHIPS Program Office leadership.

  • Skanda Amarnath

    Executive Director of Employ America, a macroeconomic policy research and advocacy organization.

  • Arnab Datta

    Managing Director of Policy Implementation, Employ America & Director of Infrastructure Policy, IFP.

  • Donna Dubinsky

    Donna Dubinsky is a serial entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley best known for her leadership roles at Palm, Handspring and Numenta.

  • Arrington Luck

    IFP State Capacity Fellow

  • Mike Schmidt

    Distinguished Visitor at Princeton University, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Institute for Progress, and former Director of the CHIPS Program Office

  • Todd Fisher

    Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Progress; Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School; Fmr Chief Investment Officer CHIPS Program Office; Fmr Private Equity Partner and Chief Administrative Officer KKR

  • Sara Meyers

    Native New Yorker, long time public servant, dog mom, amateur gardener. (And founding Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer of the CHIPS Program Office).

  • Nikita Lalwani

    Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment & Adjunct Lecturer at Johns Hopkins SAIS. Former White House Director for Technology and National Security & CHIPS Senior Advisor.

  • Andrew Kuritzkes

    Andrew Kuritzkes was a Senior Advisor in the Department of Commerce and Chief Risk Officer of the CHIPS Program Office, from 2022-2024. He's currently a Vice Chairman of Oliver Wyman, the international management consulting firm.

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