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At Americans for Responsible Innovation — now the largest AI policy advocacy organization in Washington — Satya served as Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, running the organization's AI policy strategy, including advocacy on the TAKE IT DOWN Act, now federal law, and the DEFIANCE Act, both targeting AI-generated deepfake abuse.

At a Top 100 law firm, he advised clients in government relations, lobbying on behalf of Fortune 50 companies, the largest sporting event in history, tech startups, nonprofits, and clients under Congressional investigation. At EQRx, a multibillion-dollar, venture-backed biotech, he led policy as Senior Vice President.

As Senior Counselor in the White House, Satya oversaw rulemaking across nearly a dozen cabinet agencies, with a hand in the first-ever AI executive order, major technology export controls, and federal permitting reform — around the same time, he was also a fellow with the Woodrow Wilson Center's Congressional AI Lab. As Chief Economist and Policy Advisor for the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, he led staff work on the DATA Act and Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, while the committee also took up the Right to Try Act.

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, he founded and ran the Financial Markets Working Group at George Mason University's Mercatus Center — work that earned the Atlas Network's Templeton Freedom Award. He directed financial services policy at the American Action Forum and held a faculty post at the Antonin Scalia Law School's Law & Economics Center, an economist trained at Emory University and Arizona State University. He also advises on psychedelic-medicine policy, serving on the boards of Reason for Hope and the Psychedelic Medicine Coalition.

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