Pablo Chavez

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Technology and National Security

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Pablo Chavez is an Adjunct Senior Fellow with CNAS's Technology and National Security Program. His research focuses on the national security, economic, and geopolitical implications of cloud and AI policy.

Pablo advises corporations and organizations on technology policy and strategy, with a focus on artificial intelligence and cloud computing. A contributor to the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and Lawfare, he has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and POLITICO.

Pablo also serves as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), on the board of the Open Technology Fund (OTF), and on the advisory committees of the Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI).

From 2018 to 2022, Pablo was Vice President of Google Cloud's global public policy and government relations team, leading an international organization on matters including digital sovereignty, cybersecurity, and AI. Partnering with business, product, and engineering leaders, he helped shape policy strategy for core cloud offerings, technical infrastructure investments, and global transactions.

Before rejoining Google in 2018, Pablo served as Microsoft's General Manager for U.S. Public Policy following Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn. From 2014 to 2018, as LinkedIn's Vice President of Global Public Policy and Government Affairs, he founded the public policy function, launched future-of-work research initiatives, and guided the company through evolving global content and platform policy. Earlier at Google, as Senior Director of Public Policy, his portfolio covered privacy and security, intellectual property, content policy, competition, and international trade and market access.

Previously, Pablo served as Senior Counsel to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and later as Chief Counsel to Senator John McCain, advising on corporate governance, internet regulation and taxation, consumer protection, technology policy, financial services regulation, and CFIUS reform.

Pablo received his law degree from Stanford Law School and his bachelor's degree in public and international affairs from Princeton University.