Colin Crowell is an international tech policy consultant and the former Vice President of Global Public Policy, Government, & Philanthropy at Twitter. During his eight-plus years at the company, Colin built an award-winning philanthropy program and engaged with global policymakers and civil society on a range of Internet policy issues.

Prior to joining Twitter, Colin worked as Senior Counselor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He previously spent more than two decades on Capitol Hill drafting telecommunications and Internet laws on the committee staff of then-U.S. Representative (now Senator) Ed Markey (D-MA).

Colin is a graduate of Boston College with a BA in Political Science and a minor concentration in Computer Science. After college, Colin was a Jesuit International Volunteer in Arequipa, Peru.