Andrew Burt

Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project
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Andrew Burt is co-founder and managing partner at Luminos.Law a boutique law firm focused on AI and analytics. Previously, Andrew was chief legal officer at Immuta, where he founded and led the company’s legal engineering team, a group of lawyers focused on automating compliance requirements for data science environments. During his six years at Immuta, the company was named one of the 50 most innovative companies in the world by Fast Company. Prior to Immuta, Andrew served as special advisor for policy to the head of the FBI Cyber Division, where he served as lead author on the FBI’s after action report for the 2014 attack on Sony, among other assignments.

A former reporter, Andrew has published articles on the intersection between law and technology in The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Harvard Business Review, where he is a regular contributor. His first book, American Hysteria: The Untold Story of Mass Political Extremism in the United States (Lyons Press, 2015), was called “a must read book dealing with a topic few want to tackle” by Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Andrew holds a JD from Yale Law School and a BA with first-class honors from McGill University. He is a member of the Washington, D.C. and Virginia State Bars, and a certified cyber incident response handler.