The Knight-Georgetown Institute welcomes Eric Rescorla as Senior Research Fellow
In June 2025, KGI welcomed Eric Rescorla as Senior Research Fellow with a focus on the intersection of Internet technologies with policy, working across our projects on platform governance and competition.
The Knight-Georgetown Institute is pleased to welcome Eric Rescorla as Senior Research Fellow. As a deep technical expert, Eric will work across our projects on platform governance and competition, bringing his software engineering and tech industry experience to bear on pressing policy questions.
Eric is the former Chief Technology Officer, Firefox, at Mozilla, where he was responsible for setting the overall technical strategy for the Firefox browser. Eric has contributed extensively to many of the core security protocols used in the Internet, including TLS, DTLS, WebRTC, ACME, and QUIC. He was editor of the most recent version of TLS, TLS 1.3, for which he won the Levchin Prize for Applied Cryptography in 2019. He was a co-founder of Let’s Encrypt, a free and automated certificate authority that now issues more than five million certificates a day, and helped HTTPS grow from around 30% of the Web to over 90%.
Most recently, he served as Chief Technologist for the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.