Eddan Katz

Eddan Katz has worked as a policy advisor at Credo AI since July 2021. Prior to that, they worked as a platform curator for the World Economic Forum from October 2017 to July 2021, connecting AI platform projects across the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution network of government, corporate, and civil society partners and affiliates. From January 2012 to December 2015, Katz was a co-founder of Sudo Room, a community center collaborative hackerspace in downtown Oakland. Eddan also led a community-corporate coalition to enable open and secure WiFi city-wide. Katz began their career at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in January 2008 as an International Affairs Director. In this role, they developed a taxonomy of global Internet issues, norm-setting institutions, and geographic regions to facilitate executive restructuring of the international team. Eddan also drafted international policy positions and created workspaces for politically sensitive discussion in authoritarian regions.

Eddan Katz earned their J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and went on to be a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project. Eddan is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley's School of Information and holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University. Eddan Katz also has a High School Diploma from Harvard-Westlake School and is certified by the Connecticut Bar Association as a member of the bar in the state of Connecticut.