John Henry Clippinger

Co-Founder & Executive Director

John Henry Clippinger is co-founder and Executive Director of ID3 (Institute for Innovation & Data Driven Design), a 501 C(3) �non profit organization (www.idcubed.org) �formed to �develop and field test legal and software trust frameworks for identity, �personal data, �data-driven services, infrastructures, and enterprises. He is also a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab’s Human Dynamics Group and former Chairman of the ITU Working Group on Identity and Authentication. Previously, Dr. Clippinger was founder and Co-Director of The Law Lab (www.lawlab.org) at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School.Dr. Clippinger is the editor with David Bollier of �From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond; The Quest for Identity and Autonomy in Digital Society, (2014), the author of A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity (Perseus, Public Affairs, 2007, and The Biology of Business, Natural Laws of Enterprise Josey Bass, 1998 ). Previously, he was Director of Intellectual Capital, Coopers & Lybrand and the founder of four artificial intelligence software companies.Dr. Clippinger is a graduate of Yale University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania where completed his thesis on a computational model of discourse composition, He is a member of the eG8 Forum, and the Global Leadership Council of World Economic Forum, The DoD sponsored Highlands Forum, Yale University CEO Leadership Institute, The Aspen Institute, World Technology Network Leader Finalist, Ashoka, and The Santa Fe Institute Business Network. �