Chris Riley is the executive director of the nonprofit Data Transfer Initiative and a distinguished research fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania; he holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Previously, he worked at the R Street Institute, the Mozilla Corporation, and the U.S. Department of State, among others. He has worked on tech policy in D.C. and San Francisco and managed teams based in Brussels, New Delhi, London, and Nairobi.