Bret Swanson is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Global Innovation at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Swanson was Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Technology and Democracy Project, where his work focused on telecommunications, technology and economics. For eight years he also advised technology investors, first as a technology analyst and then as Executive Editor of the Gilder Technology Report, a popular investment strategy service focused on semiconductors and communications. Swanson spent time as an analyst at Empower America and Sagamore Associates and worked as an aide to U.S. Senator Richard Lugar. Swanson attended Princeton University.