Now
I am a Senior Fellow in Emerging Technology at IFP, where I work on AI governance, US-China competition, and legal architectures for abundance and industrial policy.
I currently focus on developing and advocating for a supervised self-regulatory organization (SRO) for frontier AI. I have argued that this model, used in finance, energy, and other industries, is well-suited for governing a fast-moving and opaque technology like AI. I published a basic design spec for how an AI SSRO would look—board governance, supervising agency, rulemaking and enforcement authority, etc. Since then the model has moved from a proposal to a live policy question and now takes up most of my time.
My other research examines statutory authorities for federal innovation spending like Other Transaction Authorities, the role of the Comptroller General in appropriations law, and the legal limits to commercial espionage for industrial strategy.
Background
After undergrad (Harvard ‘15, Economics) I was a Monitor Deloitte consultant for governments and sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East. I then joined Oscar Health, where I designed and managed a multimillion-dollar federal risk adjustment program.
I left to become a research fellow at Yale’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy, and then I ran business operations for US Mobile, a venture-backed telecom startup.
At Harvard Law School I focused on the legal architecture of economic policy: appropriations law, administrative procedure, international trade, and economic national security.
I was a Legal Fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator working on industrial policy, and I founded HLS Abundance, an organization for law students interested in administrative reform, housing policy, infrastructure permitting, and state capacity. I spent a summer at the Office of General Counsel at OMB in the final months of the Biden administration and spent my second summer at Arnold & Porter.
Beyond Work
I work in DC and live in Baltimore with my wife and young children. Parenthood has drawn me into questions about early education, developmental approaches, and housing alternatives. I’m especially interested in cohousing as an antidote to isolated nuclear family structures.
I shoot photography (primarily travel and documentary), hold a record as the youngest finisher of the MR340 (a 340-mile non-stop canoe ultramarathon across Missouri), and co-hosted a podcast on literature.
I served as an LDS missionary in the Philippines for two years and speak Tagalog. I've volunteered with youth in Boston, New York, and Manila—as tutor, mentor, debate coach, and foster parent. In law school I worked with the Children and Family Law Division of Massachusetts’ Committee for Public Counsel Services.
For Press
I'm available for comment on AI governance and institutional design, appropriations and impoundment, and federal procurement. Email mark@ifp.org or book a call.