Richard Whitt

Richard Whitt’s career has spanned over three decades as a public policy attorney, technology strategist, business advisor, and entrepreneur. As founder of GLIA Foundation, in August 2024 Richard launched the GliaNet Alliance, a coalition of small for-profit tech companies exploring the market for Net fiduciaries and authentic Personal AI agents. His new book, Reweaving the Web, proposes adoption of the GliaNet ecosystem as a way to counter current challenges from large online platform companies. His NetsEdge LLC consultancy works with tech startups in Silicon Valley to develop ethical governance structures. Richard currently is senior fellow with the Georgetown Institute for Technology Law and Policy and also has served as senior fellow in residence with the Mozilla Foundation (2018-‘22). Previously, Richard was senior vice president for government relations and public policy with Twilio Inc (2022-‘24). He spent over eleven years with Google (2007-‘18) in its Washington DC and Mountain View offices, most recently serving for four years as corporate director for strategic initiatives. Richard also led tech and telecom public policy teams at MCI Communications (1994-2006) and worked as an associate at several large Washington DC-based technology law firms (1988-‘94).