Alan
Davidson

Alan Davidson is the Head of Government Affairs at Databricks. He previously served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Administrator of NTIA, the President’s principal advisor on telecom and information policy. Alan has spent the last 25 years working at the intersection of technology, public policy, and the law. He was previously Mozilla's Vice President of Global Policy, Trust and Security. He started Google’s public policy office in Washington DC, leading policy in North and South America. Alan has been a long-time leader in the Internet nonprofit community, serving as Director of the Open Technology Institute and Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. He is a graduate of MIT and the Yale Law School.