I am a writer, team leader, and lecturer with expertise in international affairs and public policy. I’m currently a senior policy analyst at New America, an independent nonpartisan think tank where I lead initiatives on the geopolitics and governance of emerging technologies like AI, the future of democracy, international institutions, and other issues in global politics. I am also visiting faculty at Stanford University’s Leadership Academy for Development and at Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management, where I teach an executive master’s course on international organizations and global networks. 

I was formerly Senior Researcher at Princeton University’s Innovations for Successful Societies program, where I wrote about institution-building and reform in settings ranging from Brazil to Sweden to the West Bank. I have also been a freelance journalist in Southeast Asia, a research lead with the predictive analytics and geopolitical risk firm Predata Inc., and a graduate intern in the US Mission to NATO in Brussels working on nuclear policy planning in the office of the Defense Advisor.

I am a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was awarded two Fulbright fellowships to Indonesia. I have a master’s degree in international relations from Princeton University and a bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Articles/Essays

• Where Are the Moonshots?, Issues in Science and Technology | July 2025
• Big Tech’s Foreign Policy Takeover, Tech Policy Press | May 2025
• There’s a Reason BRICS Is the Hottest Multilateral Ticket in Town, World Politics Review | Jan. 2025
• The Dangers of Imposing Global North Approaches to AI Governance on the Global South, Tech Policy Press | Sept. 2024
• The New U.S. Digital Development Policy Is Missing Something, World Politics Review | Aug. 2024
• The U.N. Is Still the Best Forum to Tackle AI Governance, World Politics Review | May 2024
• The Sun is Setting on Indonesia’s Democratic Era, The New York Times | Feb. 2024
• Epic Fail: How a Corporate Duopoly Ruined Skiing, Slate Magazine | Dec. 2023
• Starlink and Sovereignty, New America | Dec. 2023
• Minding the AI Power Gap, Tech Policy Press (with Patricia Gruver) | Nov. 2023
• Unlocking a Just AI Transition, New America | Oct. 2023
• Democratic Governance for the Long Emergency, in Democracy in a Hotter Time, MIT Press (with Anne-Marie Slaughter and Ann Florini) | Sept. 2023
• AI and the Global South, Project Syndicate (with Robert Muggah and Gabriella Seiler) | March 2023
• How the Green Transition Can Revitalize American Democracy, The Hill (with Hollie Russon Gilman and Ann Florini) | Jan. 2023
• Three Years Is Too Long to Wait for a Global Vaccine Rollout, Foreign Policy (with Rob Muggah, Kathrine Aguirre, and Anne-Marie Slaughter) | June 2021
• Opening Up the Order: A More Inclusive International System, Foreign Affairs (with Anne-Marie Slaughter) | March/April 2021
• America Can – And Should – Vaccinate the World, Foreign Affairs online (with Helene Gayle and Anne-Marie Slaughter) | March 2021
• The Appeal of Joko Widodo – Indonesian President, Rock-Loving Everyman, and Giver of Bicycles, South China Morning Post Magazine | April 2019
• Can a Hotbed of Islamic Insurgency in the Philippines Reinvent Itself for Tourism?, The Daily Beast | Dec. 2018
• The World of Webcraft: Using Networks Against Shadow Finance, The Washington Quarterly (with Anne-Marie Slaughter) | June 2017
• Indonesia: A Legal Plot to Thwart Corruption Fight, The Diplomat | March 2014
• Dead End for Jakarta’s Jockeys, The Jakarta Post | Oct. 2013

Reports

• Bridging the AI Governance Divide, T20 Policy Brief, G20 Brazil Presidency (with Robert Muggah and Gabriella Seiler) | August 2024
• Complexity and Global AI Governance, White Paper of the Complexity and International Relations Study Group (with Simon Levin, et al.) | April 2024
• Power and Governance in the Age of AI, New America (with Allison Stanger, Bruce Schneier, Sarah Meyers West, Nazli Choucri, and Stephanie Forrest) | March 2024
• Governing the Digital Future, New America Report (with Patricia Gruver) | Oct. 2023
• Governing Carbon Markets, NatureFinance Report (with Ann Florini) | April 2022

Case Studies

• Restoring Order in the West Bank, Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies (with Jennifer Widner and Tristan Dreisbach) | June 2022
• All In: Vietnam’s War Against COVID-19, Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies | June 2021
• The Needs of the Many: Colombia Responds to COVID-19, Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies | Sept. 2021
• Making the System Work: Germany Coordinates a Response to COVID-19, Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies | Oct. 2021
• Sweden Defends its Elections Against Disinformation, Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies | Dec. 2020
• Land Rights for the Untitled Poor: Testing a Business Model, Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies | July 2021
• City Hall Embraces Early Childhood Development: Reaching an Underserved Population in Tel Aviv, Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies | Aug. 2019
• Critical But Not Urgent: Seattle Prepares for the Big One, Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies | Oct. 2019
• Best-Laid Plans: Ethiopia Aligns Health Care with National Goals, Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies | Jan. 2019
• Colombia Tries to Balance Health Needs and Fiscal Capacity, Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies | Nov. 2018
• The Sum of its Parts: Coordinating Brazil’s Fight Against Corruption, Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies | Feb. 2017
• Changing a Civil Service Culture: Reforming Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance, Princeton University Innovations for Successful Societies | May 2016