Stephanie T. Nguyen

Stephanie T. Nguyen is a Senior Fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator and Georgetown Institute for Technology Law & Policy and was most recently the Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission under Chair Lina M. Khan. She built, designed, and executed the first Office of Technology and recruited, hired, and led a team of tech experts focused on competition and consumer protection enforcement matters, led compelled research studies on AI investments & partnerships and surveillance pricing, and strengthened digital capacity building across federal and state regulatory agencies.

At U.S. Digital Service (USDS), Nguyen served in critical roles to build, design, deploy technological services to millions of people spanning migrant youth reunification, healthcare access, and student loan repayment programs. She led investigative research as a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab and at Consumer Reports – surfacing predatory fees across food delivery services during the pandemic, discriminatory automobile insurance pricing, and health app data privacy. Nguyen was a Gleitsman Fellow from Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership and received a Masters in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelors in Digital Media Theory & Design at the University of Virginia.