Kip Wainscott is Executive Director for Global AI and Data Policy at JPMorgan Chase, where he drives a firmwide strategy to advance outcomes across the public policy and regulatory landscape that enable responsible innovation. His work builds on a career in Washington and Silicon Valley that includes senior experience in government, industry, and at leading research institutions.
In government, Kip worked in the White House under President Obama as Senior Director of Cabinet Affairs and Senior Advisor to the Domestic Policy Council, where he was a member of the National Science and Technology Council subcommittee on AI and Machine Learning. He was also Senior Counsel in the Office of Legal Policy at the US Department of Justice, where his work focused on the development of federal policies concerning emerging technologies.
After leaving government, Kip led the Silicon Valley office of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and worked at Stanford University, where he was Associate Director at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center, Director of Program for the Global Digital Policy Incubator, and a fellow with the Digital Civil Society Lab.
Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Kip was Head of Platform Policy at Snapchat, where he led the development of Snap's product and content policies and engaged policymakers on approaches to managing technology risks. He has served as an advisor to several public interest technology and policy initiatives, and has authored numerous articles and chapters on law, policy, and geopolitics.