Steering Council

The KGI Steering Council is a voluntary group of prominent scholars and policy experts established to advise the KGI Executive Director, the Georgetown University Provost, and the Knight Foundation on the strategic direction and ongoing programs of the institute.

James Baker

Consultant, JKV Consulting

Alexandre de Streel

Professor of European law at Namur University; Academic Director, CERRE; Visiting Professor, College of Europe and SciencesPo Paris

Laura DeNardis

Professor, Communication, Culture, and Technology and Research Professor, Center for Digital Ethics at Georgetown University

Motahhare Eslami

Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

Robert Groves

Georgetown University Provost

Amba Kak

Executive Director, AI Now Institute

David Lazer

University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences at Northeastern University

Maggie Little

Francis J. McNamara, Jr. Chair of Philosophy; Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics; Director, Ethics Lab; Chair of Tech & Society at Georgetown University

Alondra Nelson

Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study

Paul Ohm

Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University

Doug Peterson

Of Counsel, Keating O’Gara

John Sands

Senior Director, Media & Democracy at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Fiona Scott Morton

Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics and Director, Thurman Arnold Project at the Yale School of Management

Nabiha Syed

Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation