February 11, 2026

Tim Hwang
General Counsel and Senior Fellow
Bio
Tim Hwang is general counsel and a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation focused on emerging technologies and national security. He is also a senior technology fellow at the Institute for Progress, where he runs Macroscience. Previously, Hwang served as the general counsel and VP of operations at Substack, as well as the global public policy lead for Google on artificial intelligence and machine learning. He is the author of Subprime Attention Crisis, a book about the structural vulnerabilities in the market for programmatic advertising.
Dubbed “The Busiest Man on the Internet” by Forbes Magazine, his current research focuses on global competition in artificial intelligence and the political economy of metascience. He holds a JD from Berkeley Law School and a BA from Harvard College.
Articles from Tim Hwang

America Needs a New Generation of War Scouts
Pirate Wires
national security

A Call to Action in Percipient.ai v. United States
December 4, 2025
national security
artificial intelligence

Special Economic Zones for Restoring American Space Dominance
Space News
October 13, 2025
national security

Amicus Brief in Thomson Reuters v. Ross
October 7, 2025