Christian Tom was most recently a member of the Biden White House senior staff, where he served as Assistant to the President and Director of Digital Strategy.
He has also worked across the business, academic, and political aspects of the digital media landscape in a variety of roles and capacities. Before the White House, he led the first-of-its-kind Digital Partnerships team on President Biden’s 2020 campaign, and led digital for the Biden-Harris Inauguration. Previously, he was Publisher at the two media brands, NowThis and The Dodo, where he oversaw revenue and advertising. Before that, he worked at digital platforms: at YouTube during the development of its nascent monetization program as a new part of Google, Inc.; and at Twitter, where he was one of the early employees in Twitter's New York office, also in a range of revenue functions. Christian holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from Stanford University. He also was the Head of Americas for the McCourt Institute and was in the inaugural class at Singularity University.
Christian is also a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy where he is a Joan Shorenstein Fellow in the Spring 2025 cohort: https://shorensteincenter.org/announcing-spring-2025-shorenstein-fellows/.