Brad Smith

Biography

As Microsoft’s vice chair and president, Brad Smith leads a team of more than 2,000 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals in 54 countries, operating in more than 120 nations. He spearheads the company’s work on critical issues at the intersection of technology and society, including AI, cybersecurity, privacy, environmental sustainability, and human rights. In his bestselling book Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age, Smith and his coauthor Carol Ann Browne urge the tech sector to assume more responsibility and calls for governments to move faster to address the challenges that new technologies are creating.