Aaron Bartnick is a Global Fellow at the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy, where he focuses on technology and economic security.
Aaron has spent nearly 15 years at the intersection of technology, national security, and global markets. He currently serves as Chief of Staff at the neural engineering company Science Corporation and as the Distinguished Policy Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Critical Technology Initiative.
He most recently served in government as Assistant Director for Technology Security and Governance at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), where he led OSTP’s economic and technology security portfolios including its role on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), outbound investment policy, research security, and several strategic industries including unmanned systems and open-source semiconductors. He also represented OSTP on issues including artificial intelligence, data security, quantum computing, and digital assets.