Kerry Ann Carter Persen

Dr. Kerry Ann Carter Persen is an expert on the intersection of technology and society, with a focus on dual-use and emerging technologies, countering violent extremism, and misinformation. She works on policy development and research on Anthropic's Policy team, and is also a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project. 

Previously, Kerry worked at Stripe on payments and stablecoin policy, at Meta on AR/VR and data privacy policy, at the Institute for the Future on misinformation, and at RiceHadleyGates LLC, a strategic consulting firm led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. She has also been a Fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Minerva Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, a Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University, and a Fulbright Fellow in Indonesia. 

Kerry received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, where her research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Horowitz Foundation, and the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), among others. She graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College with a double major in Government and Economics.