Rob Strayer
Advisory Council Member
GTSC Commissioner for Lawfare, Executive Vice President of Policy, Information Technology Industry Council
Rob Strayer is the executive vice president of global policy at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI). He leads the technology sector’s advocacy in major global markets on a wide range of issues, including cybersecurity, privacy, data flows, and artificial intelligence.
Prior to joining ITI, he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Cyber and International Communications Policy at the U.S. State Department, leading dozens of dialogues with foreign governments on technology regulation and cybersecurity policy.
He also was appointed to be the U.S. ambassador for the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference in 2018. Before working at the State Department, he was the general counsel for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and practiced telecommunications law at WilmerHale.
The Commission will provide timely and essential strategic advice to the United States and other governments as they seek to secure the benefits of emerging technologies for their citizens against the backdrop of challenges to market-based competition, the rule of law, and free flows of information.