Amr Yakout is a Master of Public Policy student at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, where he studies the intersection of economics and technology policy. He is a graduate assistant with the Congressional Technology & Policy Fellowship and an active member of the Georgetown Tech Policy Initiative. Amr is interested in a wide range of technology policy issues, including compute governance and semiconductor supply chains, antitrust policy, and the strategic implications of emerging technologies in great power competition.
Prior to graduate school, Amr worked as a Program Manager at Amazon, working on strategic partnerships across the MENA region. Previously he was also at the Center for Technology and Economic Development at NYU as an economics research assistant, focusing on agricultural markets in West Africa.