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About Amy Studdart

Amy Studdart is a strategist and institution-builder working at the intersection of technology, governance, and public life. She founded Studdart & Company to help organizations navigate moments of transition—when assumptions are shifting, stakes are high, and thoughtful leadership matters most. Her work focuses on a simple premise: institutions shape the future, and they must be designed with care.

Amy has spent her career inside institutions exercising power at the intersection of technology, democracy, and global affairs. Most recently, she served as Executive Vice President & Interim Director of Meta’s Oversight Board, where she helped build and lead the independent body responsible for reviewing some of the most consequential content decisions made by Meta. In that role, she worked across governments, companies, and civil society to develop governance models that protect freedom of expression while ensuring fairness and accountability. Before joining the Board, she held senior roles at the International Republican Institute and the German Marshall Fund of the United States, advising leaders on strategy, governance design, and navigating complex political environments.

Throughout her career, Amy has worked alongside people and communities directly affected by institutional decisions—from activists using technology to strengthen democratic participation, to citizens navigating the consequences of content moderation at scale, to civil servants trying to make government work in rapidly changing conditions. This experience has shaped her conviction that good governance requires understanding not just how power works in theory, but how decisions land in practice.

Amy holds degrees in international relations and political theory. She is known for combining clear-eyed pragmatism with a strong sense of purpose, and for her ability to translate between different worlds—technology and policy, theory and practice, idealism and operational reality. She lives in Washington, DC with her family.

Drafting the Future

Amy is the author of Drafting the Future, a project exploring what it means to build institutions and govern well in an era of profound technological and political transformation. The essays examine questions of purpose, design, and human flourishing—asking not just how we should govern emerging technologies like AI, but what we’re trying to build in the first place. Read more.

Approach & Philosophy

Studdart & Company was founded to address a specific challenge: institutions are being forced to operate in conditions where the rules that once governed them are breaking down faster than new ones can be created.

Rapid technological change, political polarization, and social fragmentation mean that leaders must pursue their goals and exercise authority in fundamentally unstable conditions. Many face breakdowns in coherence—not because they lack strong leadership, capable people, or resources, but because translating mission into lasting action feels impossible amid constant crisis.

This moment requires advisory work that can bridge strategic thinking with operational reality, that understands how institutions actually function under pressure, and that helps leaders make decisions that hold up when scrutiny is highest.

Select Experience

Work has included philanthropic foundations, technology companies, nonprofit organizations, and civic institutions navigating governance challenges, organizational transitions, and moments of heightened public scrutiny. Client work has ranged from designing accountability mechanisms and governance frameworks to advising leadership teams on strategy, stakeholder engagement, and institutional resilience.