Michael Moynihan

Fellow: Director, Green Project

Michael Moynihan is Director of NDN's Green Project. In 1999, Mr. Moynihan founded the first internet video sharing community and website, AlwaysonTV, pioneering such innovations as personal video channels. He served in the Clinton Administration from 1996 to 1999, where he held the Internet Portfolio and served as Senior Advisor for Electronic Commerce, advising Secretaries Rubin and Summers. While in the Clinton Administration, he led successful efforts to pass the Internet Tax Freedom Act, helped negotiate e-commerce agreements with the EU and Japan, and oversaw the e-commerce efforts of Treasury's 140,000 employees. Prior to assuming the Internet Portfolio, he worked on a variety of other issues including: managing debt crises, reforming the global financial architecture, balancing the budget and modernizing the IRS.

Mr. Moynihan has been a member of the faculty of New York University, a fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and was the Robert C. Seamans Fellow in Technology and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of government. He holds degrees from Columbia and Harvard and is currently a PhD candidate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Coming American Renaissance (Simon & Schuster) and other books. His forthcoming book, The End of Freedom (Macmillan/Palgrave) is scheduled for publication in 2010. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other publications.