Scott Wallsten

Scott Wallsten is President and Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute, a senior fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, and a policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. His research focuses on competition, regulation, telecommunications, and the economics of digitization, with recent work on the governance of frontier AI.

Wallsten served as economics director for the FCC's National Broadband Plan and has been a lecturer in Stanford University's public policy program. He previously was a senior fellow at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, an economist at the World Bank, and a staff economist at the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers. He hosts the Two Think Minimum podcast and organizes TPI's annual technology policy forum in Aspen.

He holds a PhD in economics from Stanford University.