• Nonresident Fellow

Grace Abuhamad

Grace Abuhamad most recently served as the Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), where she had returned following graduate school and a stint in the private sector. Prior to government service, Grace managed the research program on trustworthiness at Element AI, an artificial intelligence company based in Montreal that was acquired by ServiceNow in 2021. From 2013-2016, Grace managed public policy and multistakeholder strategy for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College, and a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.