Marc

Rotenberg

Marc Rotenberg is the founder of the Center on AI and Digital Policy, a global network of AI policy experts and human rights advocates. CAIDP trains future AI policy leaders, advises national governments and international organizations, and publishes annually the AI and Democratic Values Index, a comprehensive review of AI policies and practices worldwide, and the AI Policy Sourcebook, a compendium of AI governance frameworks and policy resources

Marc served on the OECD AI Group of Experts and helped draft the OECD AI Principles, the first framework for global AI governance. Marc also drafted the Universal Guidelines for AI, a widely endorsed human rights framework for AI policy. He served on the Council of Europe expert committees that drafted the Framework Convention on AI, Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, the first international treaty for AI governance. He is a founding editor of the Journal of AI Law and Regulation. Previously, Marc was chair and founding board member of the Public Interest Registry, which manages the .ORG, the leading non-commercial Internet domain.

Marc has authored more than 100 amicus briefs for federal and state courts on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues, including thirty amicus briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court. Marc has testified before the US Congress  on more than 60 occasions. He has also spoken before the European Parliament several times, at judicial conferences many times, and given invited lectures in more than 70 countries. Marc has taught information privacy law at Georgetown Law since 1990. He coauthored three casebooks on privacy law, including Privacy and Society (West Academic 2016), as well as reference books on open government litigation, Internet governance, and AI policy, and Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape (MIT Press 1998) and Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions (The New Press 2015)

Marc Rotenberg is a graduate of Harvard College (AB), Stanford Law (JD), and Georgetown Law (LLM in International and Comparative Law). After graduation from Stanford, he served as Counsel to Senator Patrick Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee, specializing in law and technology. Marc is a member of the American Bar Foundation, the American Law Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, the European Law Institute, and the Yale CEO Forum. He has received several honors and awards, including the ABA Cyberspace Law Award, the ACM Technology Leader Award, the World Technology Network Award in Technology Policy, and the Georgetown University Vicennial Medal for Distinguished Service.

Marc is a tournament chess player, a FIDE National Instructor, and chair of the DC Chess Association.