Allen Haugh

Allen is a joint MPA/J.D. candidate who has focused his career on working in government at the confluence of technology, national security, and American competitiveness. He was most recently at the State Department, where he served as an analyst in the Bureau for International Security and Nonproliferation. In that role, he worked to preserve and extend U.S. leadership in critical technologies by supporting the development of export controls on semiconductors and AI and negotiations with partner countries on aligning critical technology protections. Allen previously served as a policy advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he supported development of the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on AI, coordinated biotechnology policy initiatives, and managed implementation of provisions in the CHIPS and Science Act and Inflation Reduction Act. He joined the civil service after college, working at the General Services Administration’s Technology Modernization Fund to strengthen the federal government’s technology infrastructure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and emerging cybersecurity threats. Born and raised in central Connecticut, Allen attended the University of Oxford, where he completed a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics with First Class Honors in 2020. Allen enjoys hosting dinner parties, cycling, constructing crossword puzzles, and taking long train rides.