Stephanie Nguyen

Stephanie T. Nguyen was named Chief Technologist on October 3, 2022 under Chair Lina M. Khan, after having served in the role in an acting capacity since October 2021. Nguyen spearheaded and launched the FTC's first Office of Technology with senior technologist experts who strengthen and support enforcement matters across the agency. She brings over a decade of leadership building and designing technical products and services across government, academia, civil society, and the private sector, specializing in human-computer interaction design and user experience research. Prior to her tenure at the FTC, Nguyen worked at the U.S. Digital Service at the White House, where she built and deployed products and services to millions of people across the Department of Education, Department of State, HHS and CMS. There, she worked on administering the delivery of technological services spanning migrant youth reunification, healthcare access, and student loan repayment programs. As a Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab and a researcher at Consumer Reports, she led investigations and initiatives like surfacing predatory fees across food delivery app services, discriminatory auto insurance pricing, and privacy harms through consumer mental health apps. Nguyen designed large scale systems to protect community genetic health data privacy through the NIH's million-person genome project and Johns Hopkins' Precision Medicine Initiative. She was a Gleitsman Scholar at the Center for Public Leadership, received a MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in Digital Media Theory and Design from the University of Virginia.