Dr. Tomicah Tillemann is the President of Project Liberty. His work focuses on developing tech and policy solutions that enable human agency and human flourishing in an AI-powered world. He has decades of experience delivering systems change at the highest levels of technology, finance, civil society, and government.
Prior to joining Project Liberty, Tomicah was a venture capitalist and head of policy at Andreessen Horowitz and Haun Ventures. He was also Senior Advisor to two Secretaries of State, directing teams of experts that built 20 major initiatives in 55 countries. He joined the State Department as speechwriter to the Secretary of State after four years on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In civil society, he served as Executive Director of the Digital Impact and Governance Initiative at New America, where he built and oversaw programs on responsible asset allocation, decentralized technology, and digital public infrastructure. He developed tools to strengthen public and private sector accountability and transparency in partnership with governments, leading foundations, and Fortune 100 companies worldwide.
Tomicah is a co-holder of four patents. He has served as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the UN World Food Program’s Innovation Advisory Council, and the GBBC. He currently serves on the boards of Diginex (NASDAQ: DGNX) and the Lantos Foundation. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University and holds a Ph.D. with distinction from the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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