Former principal deputy US chief technology officer; cofounder of the Trust & Safety Professional Association and Foundation

Alexander “amac” Macgillivray

Alexander “amac” Macgillivray, a Data & Society advisor and former board member, is a lawyer and technologist who was most recently deputy assistant to the president and principal deputy US chief technology officer (CTO) in the Biden-Harris administration. There, his portfolio included artificial intelligence (including the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, the Biden AI CEO convening, and the National AI Research Resource), digital assets (cryptocurrencies), privacy, platform regulation, wireless spectrum policy, and web accessibility. He is a co-founder and board member of the Trust & Safety Professional Association and Foundation. 

Previously, Macgillivray was deputy US CTO for the Obama-Biden administration, and served as Twitter’s general counsel and board secretary, and as the company’s head of corporate development, communications, and trust and safety. As associate general counsel for Google, he created the product counsel role for lawyers to embed in product teams. Macgillivray has been a board member at Creative Commons and CAMFED USA, a co-founder and board member at Alloy.us, and helped found the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School. He holds a JD from Harvard, a BA in reasoning and decision-making from Princeton, and a NJ teaching certificate in elementary education.

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