Michael Moynihan

Michael Moynihan currently directs the Green Project for NDN, a Washington think tank. In that capacity he proposed a green stimulus package to the Obama economic team in mid 2008 which subsequently evolved into the $768 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Mr. Moynihan is a leader and active participant in the policy debate over cap and trade legislation to limit greeenhouse gase emissions, electricity reform, clean infrastructure and other issues critical to the environment. He is currently on the faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and New York University’s Wagner School.

In 1999, Mr. Moynihan founded the first Internet video sharing community and website, AlwaysonTV, pioneering such innovations as personal video channels. From 1996 to 1999, he 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.

Dr. Moynihan has been a fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Robert C. Seamans Fellow in Technology and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and the William Bowen Merit Fellow at Princeton University. He holds degrees from Columbia, Harvard and Princeton.

He 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. Mr. Moynihan is a frequent speaker and television commentator on economic, social and political topics.