BIOGRAPHY
Paul Misener
is Amazon.com’s Vice President for Global Innovation Policy and
Communications. An Amazon VP for over 22
years, Paul has long participated in Amazon’s history, culture, and methods of
sustained, customer-obsessed innovation guided by the company’s Leadership
Principles. He frequently represents
Amazon to external organizations and internal colleagues worldwide.
The founder of
Amazon’s global public policy organization, Paul built and led the team and
served as the company’s Vice President for Global Public Policy from February
2000 to May 2016. Paul has testified before the United States Congress over 30
times and dozens of times before other policymaking bodies around the world. He
has met hundreds of times with political leaders, heads of state, cabinet
ministers, US Representatives and Senators, US governors and mayors, and has
negotiated policy agreements with many of these governors.
Paul is both an
engineer, scientist, and attorney and has brought his expertise to advise
numerous policy and technology organizations during his career. He served as
Senior Legal Advisor to a commissioner of the US Federal Communications
Commission; co-founded and led the computer industry’s Internet Access
Coalition, which successfully blocked the imposition of telecom access charges on
Internet access; and chaired the technical subcommittee of the US Federal
Aviation Administration’s advisory committee that recommended allowing
commercial airline passengers to use portable electronics during taxi, takeoff,
and landing.
Paul serves on the
board of a number of organizations in the US, advising on economic development,
technology, education, and public affairs. He lives with his family outside of
Washington, D.C. in the United States.