Biography

Michael Schmidt has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2025. Mr. Schmidt has served as a Distinguished Visitor at Princeton University’s Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies since July 2025. Previously, he served as director of the CHIPS Program Office at the U.S. Department of Commerce from September 2022 to January 2025, as senior advisor at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from May 2021 to September 2022, as commissioner of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance from January 2019 to April 2021, as senior economic advisor to the Governor of the State of New York from April 2018 to January 2019, and as Deputy Secretary for Economic Development of the State of New York from April 2017 to April 2018. Earlier in his career, Mr. Schmidt held roles in the Office of Domestic Finance at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and as a financial analyst at the Yale Investments Office. Mr. Schmidt earned a B.A. in History from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.