Elaine Sedenberg

Speaker Bio

Elaine Sedenberg currently leads market development initiatives and supports the VP of Meta's Wearables Business Group. Previously Elaine served as a policy advisor for Meta's President of Global Affairs (Nick Clegg), and covered issues across Policy, Communications, and Governance. She has also led global research insights and academic partnerships for Meta's Privacy and Data Policy team.

She is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at Johns Hopkins SAIS teaching "Information Policy Strategy and Design in the Age of AI," and has also been a returning Lecturer at UC Berkeley’s School of Information. Elaine is an active Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and sits on the Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) External Advisory Committee.

Elaine has a PhD from the Berkeley School of Information, where she completed her dissertation "Information-intensive innovation: the changing role of the private firm in the research ecosystem through the study of biosensed data." In 2025 Elaine was awarded the UC Berkeley Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement by Young Alumni for her contributions to the community, country, and the world at large.

Elaine served as the co-director of the Center for Technology, Society & Policy (CTSP), and held a Science Policy Research Fellowship at the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI)—an FFRDC that supports the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) as well as other federal agencies.