Craig Mundie

Chief Research and Strategy Officer of Microsoft Corp. He serves on the U.S. National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and the Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Mundie has spent much of his career building startups in various fields. He has served as Microsoft’s principal technology-policy liaison to the U.S. and foreign governments. Mundie holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in information theory and computer science from Georgia Tech.