Jane Hoffman

Jane S. Hoffman is a public policy expert, author, and civic leader whose career spans government, media, and environmental advocacy. She currently serves as a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, and has held senior roles in New York government, including Commissioner of Consumer Affairs.

Hoffman holds a B.S. in Communication from Northwestern University and studied labor relations at the London School of Economics. She founded the Presidential Forum on Renewable Energy and co-authored Green: Your Place in the New Energy Revolution, excerpted in Scientific American.

Her most recent book, Your Data, Their Billions: Unraveling and Simplifying Big Tech (2022), examines how technology companies monetize personal data.