Martin Giles is the executive director of Hoover’s Technology Policy Accelerator, focusing on policy issues in emerging technologies like AI, biotechnology, robotics, semiconductors, and space. He also produces The Stanford Emerging Technology Review and is a policy fellow at Hoover, working on frontier tech financing. Giles spent twenty-five years as a journalist at The Economist before becoming a partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Prior to joining Hoover he was an executive at In-Q-Tel, a venture firm specializing in national security investing.