Bio

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Alexander Macgillivray, also known as "amac," is curious about many things including ethics, law, policy, government, decision making, the Internet, algorithms, social justice, access to information, coding, and the intersection of all of those.

He is currently a board member at the Trust & Safety Professional Association, the Trust & Safety Foundation, and Public Resource. 

He worked on the Biden transition team and administration as Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer and held a similar position in the Obama Administration. He was part of the founding team at the Trust & Safety Professional Association and Alloy.us. He was also a proud board member at Data & Society and Creative Commons, and an advisor to the Mozilla Tech Policy Fellows. 

He was Twitter's General Counsel, and head of Corporate Development, Public Policy, Communications, and Trust & Safety. Before that he was Deputy General Counsel at Google and created the Product Counsel team. He has served on the board of the Campaign for the Female Education (CAMFED) USA, was one of the early Berkman Klein Center folks, was certified as a First Grade Teacher by the State of New Jersey, and studied Reasoning & Decision Making as an undergraduate.

For more about what he is proudest of during his last few jobs see:

• My time in the Biden-Harris Administration
• The last four years: the miscellany of the four years after Obama,
• First Time in Government: in the Obama Administration,
• Some News and Thanks: at Twitter, and
• On Leaving Google: at Google.
• And this overly nice article from the Guardian summing some of it up.

For a more resume-like experience, check out his LinkedIn.

Photo by Yash Mori, White House Photographer