Shalin Jyotishi

Shalin Jyotishi is an award-winning researcher, writer, and policy strategist. He is the founder and managing director of New America’s Future of Work and Innovation Economy (FOWIE) Initiative, a research, storytelling, and policy incubator advancing integrated science, workforce, labor, and innovation policies and practices that harness scientific and technological progress to rebuild the American middle class. 

Shalin is also a Forbes contributor covering higher education, labor, and workforce issues relating to science, industrial, and innovation policy and a Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University’s Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes. 

A seasoned industry analyst, Jyotishi's insights on education, the workforce, emerging technology, manufacturing, policy, and their intersections have appeared in NPR, Washington Post, Politico, Financial Times, Fast Company, U.S. News and World Report, and USA Today. He serves on InformationWeek’s Insights Council and frequently speaks at high-level forums, including for the United Nations, SXSW, Davos, OECD, and U.S. National Academies.

He has served on advisory boards for the MIT Science Policy Review, the UN International Telecommunications Union, the International Economic Development Council, George Washington University’s Institute for Public Policy, Georgetown University’s Center on Security and Emerging Technology, and Arizona State University's Future of Being Human Initiative, Strada Education Foundation’s CredLens, and Bipartisan Policy Center.

Previously, he served on the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning team at the World Economic Forum, leading research on AI, job quality, and work augmentation. He oversaw labor economics research at the Burning Glass Institute and served as Program Director at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)–North America’s oldest presidential higher education association–where he partnered with university executives on strategic planning, implementation, and policy advocacy for economic and workforce development, entrepreneurship, and innovation ecosystem building.

Jyotishi is a recognized leader in science and innovation policy. He served as CEO and managing publisher of the internationally acclaimed Journal of Science Policy and Governance and as a visiting scholar in Science Policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science–the world’s largest science society–where he co-authored a textbook on U.S. science policy (forthcoming MIT Press). He held science and innovation policy positions at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and University of Michigan, and led a consulting practice serving global non-profits, campaigns, and philanthropies.

A product of public education, Jyotishi earned his B.S. from the University of Georgia, M.S. from Arizona State University, and was a University Innovation Fellow at Stanford University. Connect with Shalin.