Alan Davidson served until January 2025 as the Administrator of NTIA, the President’s principal advisor on telecommunications and information policy. As Administrator, Alan led a federal agency with more than 600 employees working to close the digital divide, manage federal spectrum resources, build a better Internet, and promote responsible AI innovation. He oversaw the development of a National Spectrum Strategy, and the creation of a new $50 billion grant program to promote Internet adoption and connect everyone in America with high-speed Internet service by 2030.
Alan has spent the last 25 years working at the intersection of Internet technology, public policy, and the law. Before joining NTIA Alan was Mozilla’s Vice President of Global Policy, Trust and Security, where he led public policy and privacy teams promoting an open Internet and a healthy web. Alan served in the Obama-Biden Administration as the first Director of Digital Economy at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He started Google’s public policy office in Washington, D.C., and as Director of Public Policy, led government relations and policy in North and South America for seven years until 2012.
Alan has been a long-time leader in the Internet nonprofit community, serving as Director of New America’s Open Technology Institute where he worked to promote equitable broadband access and adoption. As Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, Alan was an advocate for civil liberties and human rights online in some of the earliest Internet policy debates. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Yale Law School, and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
