As Microsoft’s Vice Chair and President, Brad Smith leads a team of more than 1,900 business, legal, and corporate affairs professionals located in 54 countries and operating in more than 120 nations. He plays a key role in spearheading the company’s work on critical issues at the intersection of technology and society, including cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, environmental sustainability, human rights, immigration, and philanthropy.

Smith joined Microsoft in 1993 and in 2002, he was named Microsoft’s general counsel, spending the following decade working to resolve company’s antitrust controversies with governments around the world and companies across the tech sector. Prior to joining Microsoft, Smith was an associate and then partner at the law firm of Covington and Burling. Smith is active in several civic organizations and in the broader technology industry. He has served on the Netflix board of directors since 2015 and chairs the board of directors of both Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship program. He co-authored the bestselling book ""Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age"" with Microsoft’s Carol Ann Browne, and hosts the podcast with the same name.

He earned his J.D. degree from Columbia University Law School and studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.