Elaine Sedenberg joins teams who are undergoing accelerated growth to build rhythms of business, evidence-informed strategy, and advise on executive leadership escalations. She is currently supporting the VP of Meta's Wearables Business Group and leading market development initiatives.
Previously Elaine served as a policy advisor for Meta's President of Global Affairs (Nick Clegg), and covered issues across Policy, Communications, and Governance. She has also led global research insights and academic partnerships for Meta's Privacy and Data Policy team. She is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at Johns Hopkins SAIS teaching "Information Policy Strategy and Design in the Age of AI," and has also been a returning Lecturer at UC Berkeley’s School of Information teaching "Applied Behavioral Economics."
Elaine is an active Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and sits on the Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) External Advisory Committee. Elaine has a PhD from the Berkeley School of Information, where she completed her dissertation "Information-intensive innovation: the changing role of the private firm in the research ecosystem through the study of biosensed data." Her research challenges the theory of linear innovation, and explores how research strategy, practice, and data policies intersect within a modern information firm.
Elaine served as the co-director of the Center for Technology, Society & Policy (CTSP), and held a Science Policy Research Fellowship at the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI)—an FFRDC that supports the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) as well as other federal agencies. In 2025 Elaine was awarded the UC Berkeley Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement by Young Alumni for her contributions to the community, country, and the world at large. In graduate school she received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and received other grants and gifts including one from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support her research.
She holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin where she graduated with highest honors and a Dean's Honored Graduate distinction. Outside of work, you'll find Elaine traveling to visit her friends scattered around the world, antiquing to expand her collection of rare Staffordshire Spaniels, rediscovering the joys of adventure RPGs from the 1990s/early 2000s, or spending time with her dog Eloise. She volunteers with the Junior League of Washington.
