Dean Ball

Dean Woodley Ball is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation. He most recently served as Senior Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Trump administration, where he was the primary staff drafter of America’s AI Action Plan. He also served as Strategic Advisor for AI at the National Science Foundation.

Previously, Dean was a Research Fellow in the Artificial Intelligence & Progress Project at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. He is the author of Hyperdimensional, a prominent newsletter on AI policy. His work focuses on emerging technologies and the future of governance, and publications by the Mercatus Center, the Hoover Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Federation of American Scientists, the Manhattan Institute, and American Compass have featured his scholarship.

Before his government service, Dean held senior positions at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, and the Manhattan Institute, where he oversaw the Hayek Book Prize. Dean serves on the Board of Directors of the Alexander Hamilton Institute and was selected as an Aspen Ideas Fellow. He graduated magna cum laude from Hamilton College with a B.A. in History and lives in Washington, DC.