Alan
Davidson

Alan Davidson is the Head of Government Affairs at Databricks. He previously served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Administrator of NTIA, the President’s principal advisor on telecommunications and information policy. Alan has spent the last 25 years working at the intersection of Internet technology, public policy, and the law. He was Mozilla's Vice President of Global Policy, Trust and Security, and earlier started Google’s public policy office in Washington DC, leading policy for the Americas. Alan has been a long-time leader in the Internet nonprofit community, serving as Director of the Open Technology Institute and Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. He is a graduate of MIT and the Yale Law School.