Erik Martin

Erik Martin is a Manager at Renaissance Philanthropy.

Erik helped build several teams, offices, and new programs from the ground up across government, industry, and civil society. Most recently, he helped stand up the new Office of Technology at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, where he served as Senior Advisor to the CTO and Senior Technology Advisor, and worked with leadership and across the agency on tech-focused consumer protection and competition matters and investigations.

Prior to that, he helped create the Day One Project and the Impact Fellowship program at the Federation of American Scientists, and worked with Democracy Fund’s Digital Democracy Initiative. He previously worked at the game engine company Unity where he developed new education-focused programs and products. During the Obama Administration, Erik served as a Policy Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as well as an innovation fellow at the U.S. Department of Education.

Erik is a recipient of Forbes 30 under 30. He holds a MSc in Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford where he studied as a Clarendon Scholar, and a BA from the University of Maryland, College Park.