Andrew Gruen is a strategic leader and technology executive, with deep experience in supporting tech and policy development in the public interest, across both private and public sectors. Andrew works on planning and special projects at the Mozilla Foundation. He is also the founder and principal consultant at Working Paper, where he builds and implements strategic plans for technology-centric institutions, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and goals. Andrew supports cross-functional teams to execute complex initiatives, providing strategic guidance and support to leadership throughout the process.
In addition to his role at Mozilla, Andrew serves as a Senior Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum, where he is the subject-matter expert lead on the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy funded Research Coordination Network on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. He is also a Fellow at George Washington University's Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics, focusing on the implementation of Europe's Digital Services Act.
Andrew previously held multiple strategic roles at Meta Platforms, including leading the planning for policy-relevant research out of the office of the President, and the governance processes for the U.S. 2020 Election Research Project. He also founded and led a new research partnerships organization to engage academia and drive key policy outcomes. Additionally, of which he is particularly proud, he helped found and then represented Meta in the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) working groups on data access, contributing to the development of strategies for ethical, compliant, and privacy-respecting platform-to-researcher data sharing.
At Seven Bridges, Andrew served as Chief Communications Officer, leading marketing, business development, and partnerships, including participation in the White House's Cancer Moonshot program with a particular focus on creating more accurate, less invasive, genomics-based cancer diagnostics.
His early career was in journalism, and included roles at OhmyNews in South Korea, BBC, and Hearst Television. Andrew has worked with various research universities and media companies on improving journalism in the digital age, including Northwestern University, University of Southern California, The Guardian, and The Texas Tribune.
Andrew has received multiple other fellowships; he was previously a Robert Bosch Foundation Global Governance Futures 2035 fellow, a research fellow at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard Kennedy School, an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and a Luce Scholar placed in Seoul, South Korea.
He holds a PhD (dissertation) and MPhil (dissertation) in sociology from the University of Cambridge, where he was twice a Gates Cambridge scholar, and a BSJ from the Medill School at Northwestern University.
Andrew is also an advisory board member at the Open Commons Consortium, contributing to the development of open-source data access platforms for research, and is an active alumnus of the Gates Cambridge and Henry Luce Foundation fellowships.