Shalin Jyotishi is a nationally recognized writer, researcher, and leader at the intersection of economic development, workforce development, and emerging technology policy.
He serves as the founder and managing director of New America’s Future of Work and Innovation Economy (FOWIE) initiative, a nonpartisan research, technical assistance, and storytelling program advancing policy solutions and practice change to strengthen the link between tech-based growth and expanded economic security for workers and families. He is also a Forbes contributor specializing in science, industrial, and workforce policy, and a visiting scholar at Arizona State University.
Previously, he led research on AI and job quality at the World Economic Forum and oversaw labor economics research at the Burning Glass Institute. He served as CEO and managing publisher of the internationally acclaimed Journal of Science Policy and Governance. He later served as a visiting scholar in Science at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a co-author of a forthcoming MIT Press book, Beyond Sputnik: U.S. Science Policy in the 21st Century.
Before that, he led initiatives at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities that equipped university presidents and executives with strategies and practices for university-based economic and workforce development. He began his career in science and innovation policy at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the University of Michigan, and as a consultant to global nonprofits and philanthropies.
Jyotishi's expertise on education, the workforce, emerging technologies, manufacturing, policy, and their intersections has appeared in NPR, Financial Times, Fast Company, and USA Today, and he is a frequent speaker at high-level forums, including the United Nations, SXSW, and Davos.
He has served on advisory and governing boards for the Education Writers Association, International Telecommunications Union, the International Economic Development Council, George Washington University’s Institute for Public Policy, the Bipartisan Policy Center, and Strada Education Foundation’s CredLens initiative. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and Arizona State University and completed a fellowship at Stanford University. Connect with Shalin.