Annie Wu

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Annie Wu
Managing Director, Privacy Tools Project and OpenDP, IQSS, Harvard University

Annie leads a core team of staff and researchers at SEAS and IQSS, overseeing staffing, finances, fundraising, technical development, and administrative operations for the Privacy Tools Project and OpenDP. She serves on the OpenDP executive committee and sets strategic priorities under the direction of faculty co-directors Salil Vadhan and Gary King. Under her leadership, OpenDP has grown from its inception into a trusted open-source platform with an active global community of hundreds of experts, contributors, and users. Before joining Harvard, Annie led distributed teams to deliver major technology and data initiatives valued at tens of millions of dollars across diverse industries, including banking, investment, health insurance, and telecom infrastructure. She holds an MBA in Finance and an MSIS from Boston University.