Paul Fehlinger is a global leader at the intersection of AI investment, entrepreneurship and policy.
At Harvard, he focuses on two areas: How investors can navigate risk and return in a fast-moving market, and where trustworthy AI is creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors. And how to better bridge the VC and policy worlds in regulated markets. As Senior Director of Policy, Investment & Innovation at Project Liberty Institute, Paul leads the strategy and execution of initiatives on the future of the AI economy within a family-office-backed USD 500 million effort. He works with institutional investors, venture firms, family offices, entrepreneurs and policymakers to price in new systemic risks, interpret demand signals and shape capital allocation across the AI stack. He co-built one of the first international processes on responsible AI investment, engaging LPs and VCs representing more than USD 6 trillion in capital across Europe, North America and Asia.
Paul regularly speaks at leading investment, tech and policy gatherings, including SuperVenture, United Nations, OECD, AI Summit, Private Equity International, FRAME, ImpactVC, and Norrsken Impact Week. His perspectives have appeared in The Economist, The New York Times, ImpactAlpha, New Private Markets, Fortune and Politico, and have been featured by the Council on Foreign Relations, StepStone's Reflections on Private Markets podcast or Mary Meeker's Internet Trends Report. He has served on advisory groups for the Intentional Endowments Network, World Economic Forum, the Global Commission on Internet Governance, and other international bodies. He publishes VC+POLICY, a platform advancing the VC-entrepreneur-policy interface.
From 2011 to 2022, he co-founded and led the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network, pioneering multistakeholder cooperation and standards for cross-border digital markets across 70 countries, between governments, IGOs, tech companies (USD 10T+ combined market cap) and experts. Its work was endorsed by the G7, UN, OECD and EU. Paul is also a VC and policy Fellow at the Hertie School and an alumnus of the Newton Venture Investing Program of LocalGlobe VC, London Business School and HSBC Innovation Banking. He holds a Master’s in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris with a scholarship from the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung) and a BA in European Studies from Maastricht University.
