Paul Misener is Amazon.com’s Vice President for Global Innovation Policy and Communications. An Amazon veteran of nearly 17 years, from February 2000 to May 2016 he was Amazon’s Vice President for Global Public Policy.

Both an engineer and attorney (B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Princeton University, 1985; J.D., George Mason University, 1993, Distinguished Achievement Award, 2001), Paul advocates Amazon’s culture of customer-focused innovation; serves as Amazon’s most senior policy spokesperson worldwide; and oversees the development of Amazon’s global public policy positions.

Formerly a partner in the law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Paul also served as Senior Legal Advisor to a Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Prior to this government service, he was Intel Corporation’s Manager of Telecommunications and Computer Technology Policy, and leader of the computer industry’s Internet Access Coalition.

In the late 1980s, Paul was a public policy specialist for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, where he was a U.S. delegate to conferences of the International Telecommunication Union. Prior to that, he designed radio communications systems. In 2013, he chaired the technical subcommittee of the Federal Aviation Administration’s advisory committee that recommended allowing airplane passengers to use portable electronics during takeoff and landing. Paul serves on the FCC’s Technological Advisory Council; the Board of the Public Affairs Council; and the Advisory Board for Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. He is an inventor named in two patents.