MIT World Speakers

Alan Davidson '89, SM '93

Prior to joining Google, Alan Davidson was Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a public interest group promoting civil liberties and human rights online. He has written and spoken widely on privacy, free speech, encryption, and copyright online. Davidson is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's program in Communications, Culture, and Technology, teaching a graduate seminar on Internet architecture and public policy. In 2004 he was a Visiting Scholar in MIT's Program on Science, Technology, and Society.

Davidson is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was Symposium Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received an S.B. in Mathematics and Computer Science and an S.M. in Technology and Policy from MIT.