Andrew Wyckoff

Biography

Andrew Wyckoff is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and at IE University’s School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs. He is also a Visiting Senior Fellow at the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance and a nonresident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution supporting the Forum for Cooperation on AI.

In July 2023, he retired from the OECD, where for more than a decade he was the Director of the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). As Director, he represented the OECD in relationships with international organizations, including participating in G-7 and G-20 work on innovation and digital policy. During his tenure as Director, the OECD developed its AI Principles (2019, 2024), established the Global Partnership on AI (2020), and supported the Hiroshima AI Process (2023).

His experience before joining the OECD in 1995 includes positions at the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment as the Program Manager of the IT and Commerce program, and at the US National Science Foundation (NSF). He served as a commissioner on the Lancet Commission Global Health Futures 2030 and co-chaired the US National Academies’ panel on Developing Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators for the Future. He has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Vermont and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.