Lawrence Norden
Lawrence Norden (LinkedIn – Bluesky) is vice president of the Elections and Government Program at the Brennan Center, where he oversees a broad national portfolio of topics, including election security and administration, artificial intelligence and democracy, political violence, campaign finance, political corruption, and the election information ecosystem.
Norden is widely recognized as a leading authority on the intersection of democracy and technology. He is the lead author of The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World (2006) and a contributor to Defending Democracies: Combating Foreign Interference in a Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2021), as well as the author of numerous nationally cited reports and articles shaping public debate on election security, AI, and democratic governance.
Beyond his organizational leadership, Norden plays an active role in national governance and advisory bodies, currently serving on the boards of advisers of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and the Public Service Alliance and as a member of the National Task Force on Election Crises. He has also served on the Aspen Institute’s AI and Democracy Advisory Council and as a Democracy Policy Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.
He has received multiple national honors for his impact and leadership, including the Usability Professionals Association’s Usability in Civic Life Award and the Election Verification Network’s John Gideon Memorial Award. Norden holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Chicago and a JD from NYU School of Law.
