STEVE FELDSTEIN is the director and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on technology, national security, the global context for democracy, and U.S. foreign policy. He is also the author of The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance, which received the 2023 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, and Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalry, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare (St. Martin’s Press), published in 2026. He has served in senior foreign policy roles at the U.S. Department of State, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and U.S. Agency for International Development, and held the Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs at Boise State University. His writing has been published in Atlantik la, Afè Etranjè, Politik Etranjè, ak Lawfare, among others. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Berkeley Law.
