About

Shalin Jyotishi is a nationally recognized researcher, writer, and strategist in science, workforce, and economic development policy. He is the Founder and Director of the Future of Work and Innovation Economy (FOWIE) initiative at New America—a policy research, practice change, and storytelling program dedicated to expanding economic securiy and well-being for workers and families through science- and tech-based economic development.

He serves as a Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University’s Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes and a  Forbes contributor covering education, labor, and workforce topics relating to science, industrial, and innovation policy. He is also a Big Bets Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation.

A seasoned industry analyst and commentator, Shalin’s expertise has appeared in global media outlets including Financial Times, NPR, Politico, Fast Company, USA Today, Washington Post, and Marketplace.

A sought-after speaker and facilitator, Shalin has delivered more than 500 invited keynotes, presentations, and talks for corporate, academic, policy, media, and non-profit leaders and for general audiences on high-level stages, including at Davos, United Nations, OECD, the World Bank, U.S. National Academies, SXSW, ASU-GSV.

Shalin has been appointed to advisory and governing boards for the Bipartisan Policy Center, Education Writers Association, MIT Science Policy Review, UN International Telecommunications Union, International Economic Development Council, American Enterprise Institute, George Washington University’s Institute for Public Policy, Georgetown University’s Center on Security and Emerging Technology, Strada Education Foundation’s CredLens, and Arizona State University’s Future of Being Human Initiative. He has been elected a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Previously, Shalin served was the first civil society Fellow on the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning team at the World Economic Forum, where he built a body of research and storytelling portfolio focused on AI and job quality. He was also a Visiting Scholar in Science and Technology Policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest membership association of scientists, where he conducted research and co-authored a book on science and technology policy (Forthcoming MIT Press).

Before that, Shalin built and led teams and a dozen initiatives at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, North America’s oldest presidential higher education association, that advised and empowered more than a hundred university presidents and senior executives on proactive economic and workforce development and R&D innovation strategy and implementation. He also led a number of sensemaking, advocacy, and research projects focused on technology transfer, industry partnerships, work-based learning, entrepreneurship ecosystem building, and embedding industry certifications in degrees.

Shalin served as the CEO and Managing Publisher of the internationally acclaimed Journal of Science Policy & Governance. He led the non-profit to double the journal’s staff and publishing frequency and pioneered global partnerships with the U.K. government, the United Nations, and the Kavli Foundation. He began his career working on science and innovation policy topics at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nation’s oldest learned society, where he supported a number of research roundtables and study commissions convening government, academia, industry, philanthropy, entertainment, and media executives. He also held a science policy research position at the University of Michigan and founded a boutique consultancy serving global development, science and technology, and social impact firms.

Shalin earned his B.S. from the University of Georgia and earned his M.S. from Arizona State University and served as a University Innovation Fellow at Stanford University. Shalin can be found on LinkedIn, Twitter, Bluesky, and YouTube. When he is