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 dedicated to improving and aligning science, workforce, labor, and innovation policies to renew the American middle class. He is also a Forbes Contributor covering higher education, labor, and workforce issues relating to science, industrial, and innovation policy. A seasoned industry analyst, Jyotishi's insights on education, the workforce, emerging technology, 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 is a frequent speaker at high-level forums, including for the United Nations, SXSW, and Davos.Among other positions, he served as the first civil society fellow in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the World Economic Forum, where he led 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, 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 and innovation ecosystem building.