Martin Giles

About

Martin Giles is the assistant director of Hoover’s Technology Policy Accelerator, which focuses on policy issues affecting key emerging technologies—including AI, biotechnology, robotics, semiconductors, and space—and produces The Stanford Emerging Technology Review. He is also a policy fellow at Hoover working on issues related to the financing of frontier tech.

Giles was a senior editor at The Economist for twenty-five years. serving from London as its finance and economics editor and then moving to the business side of the company, where he was responsible for its global conference operations, its peer groups for senior executives, and several other publications owned by The Economist, including Roll Call in Washington, DC, which is focused on news related to Congress.

Giles also acquired multiple businesses and launched several new ones, including a publication for finance executives across Europe that won an award for British export achievement from Queen Elizabeth II and former prime minister Tony Blair.

On returning to The Economist’s editorial team, Giles led the paper’s coverage of Silicon Valley for over five years, writing editorials and special reports on cybersecurity, mobile computing, big tech and antitrust, and a range of other tech policy issues.

He subsequently became a partner at a venture capital firm investing in early-stage enterprise technology and then served as the San Francisco bureau chief of MIT Technology Review, where his writing focused on quantum science, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. Most recently, he was the first editorial director of In-Q-Tel, which invests in emerging technologies on behalf of the US national security community.

Giles received his bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University and an executive MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth Graduate School of Business.