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Michael Moynihan
NDN Fellow
February 12, 2008
As an NDN Fellow and director of the Green Project (working title), Michael Moynihan brings to NDN significant policy experience. He is currently a PhD candidate and William Bowen Merit Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and on the faculty of New York University’s Real Estate Institute. In 1999, he founded the first Internet video sharing community and website, AlwaysonTV, pioneering such innovations as personal video channels and video greetings. From 1996 to 1999, Michael served in the Clinton Administration where he held the Internet portfolio and advised Secretaries Rubin and Summers as Senior Advisor for Electronic Commerce. While in the Clinton Administration, he led successful efforts to pass the Internet Tax Freedom Act, helped negotiate e-commerce agreements on payments, taxation and other issues with the EU and Japan, and oversaw the e-commerce efforts of Treasury’s 140,000 employees. Prior to assuming the Internet portfolio, he advised Secretaries Rubin and Summers on a variety of other issues including managing debt crises, reforming the global financial architecture, balancing the budget and modernizing the IRS.
Michael has also been 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.
Michael is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Coming American Renaissance (Simon & Schuster) and other books. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other publications.
