Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Arati Prabhakar, Ph.D., is Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology. In this capacity, Prabhakar is the President’s Chief Advisor for Science and Technology, a member of the President’s Cabinet, and co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
An engineer and applied physicist with broad management and leadership experience, Prabhakar has led two different federal R&D agencies and worked with startups, large companies, universities, government labs, and nonprofits across a wide variety of sectors to create new solutions for critical challenges. She served as director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, from 2012 to 2017. In 1993, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), becoming the first woman to lead the agency. Between these federal leadership roles, Prabhakar spent 15 years in Silicon Valley as a company executive and as a venture capitalist. In 2019, she founded Actuate, a nonprofit organization to develop new approaches to innovation for society’s essential challenges.
Prabhakar’s family immigrated from India to the United States when she was three years old, moving first to Chicago and then Lubbock, Texas, where she went on to earn an electrical engineering degree from Texas Tech University. She also earned an M.S. in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology. She started her career in the legislative branch as a Congressional Fellow at the Office of Technology Assessment.
She is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Congressman (AR-02), United States House of Representatives

Congressman French Hill, a ninth generation Arkansan, has represented Arkansas's Second Congressional District since 2015. As the founder and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Delta Trust & Banking Corp., Rep. Hill brings to Congress his considerable knowledge in the financial services industry and real world experience to apply to real world issues – both domestic and international. At the start of the 118th Congress, he was named Chairman of the newly formed Digital Assets Subcommittee and the Vice Chairman of the full House Financial Services Committee, and is a regular on Squawk Box, Bloomberg, and Fox News, among others. He is also a Co-Chair of the Committee’s AI Working Group and was appointed to the AI Task Force in the House by Speaker Johnson earlier this year. Rep. Hill also sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he is the Vice Chairman of the subcommittee that oversees U.S. involvement in international organizations such as the United Nations, and on the House Permanent Select Committee for Intelligence. A born public servant, his prior work in Washington, D.C., first as U.S. Senate staff to the late Sen. John Tower of Texas and later in the Treasury Department and the White House for President George H.W. Bush, informs his work on key issues from trade to entrepreneurial and corporate management to the defense of our borders and safety of our troops and allies abroad.