Ryan Merkley
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Ryan Merkley is CEO of Conscience, an emerging biotech non-profit, using AI and collaborative science to address areas of market failure in drug development. He is also the Senior Technology Fellow at the Aspen Institute, working on important issues in artificial intelligence, open source, intellectual property, data and privacy, and information integrity. He is an affiliate of the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and the founding chair of the Flickr Foundation. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Ryan spent over a decade as a c-suite executive in technology non-profits, including Chief of Staff at the Wikimedia Foundation, five years as CEO at Creative Commons, and Chief Operating Officer at Mozilla.