About Me

My name is Conor Sanchez. I am a policy and public affairs professional based in the Bay Area.

I currently work in technology policy at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, building and managing multi-stakeholder communities to co-design policy around the use of AI and Machine Learning. Utilizing design thinking, strategic foresight, and virtual facilitation, I help these communities tackle complex international challenges, such as developing a desirable future economy that requires less labor as a result of advancements in automation and AI.

Prior to joining the Forum, I spent over a decade working in politics and international affairs. My career started in Washington, D.C., first as a legislative correspondent for a U.S. senator, where my portfolio included foreign affairs, fiscal and monetary policy, and labor. Later, I served in the Obama administration as special assistant to then-Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams, working to strengthen the quality of program support for Volunteers serving in remote villages around the world. Inspired by their work, my wife and I then left D.C. to serve as Peace Corps Volunteers in Nicaragua, which I wrote about here.

This set of experiences guided me to focus on the social and political impact of technology innovations. As a graduate student of international affairs at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, I concentrated on development economics and the geopolitics of emerging technology . I sometimes wrote about these topics for the Council on Foreign Relations, which can be found here and here.

Perhaps most importantly, I am a proud native of New Mexico and eat too much green chile when I am home. I dream about hiking the CDT one day.

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