Paul misener amazon biography

An Amazon.com vice president for 22 years, Paul Misener currently is Amazon’s Vice President for Global Innovation Policy and Communications. Paul is an engineer/scientist (Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Princeton University, 1985) and attorney (Juris Doctor, George Mason University, 1993; Distinguished Achievement Award, 2001).

He is an inventor named in three patents.

The founder of Amazon’s global public policy organization, Paul served as the company’s Vice President for Global Public Policy from February 2000 to May 2016. Paul has testified before the United States Congress over 30 times and many dozens of times before other policymaking bodies around the world.

Paul had planned to become an astrophysicist and, under the guidance of the scientist for whom the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe satellite is named, he conducted a research project in Princeton’s Physics Department involving an electromagnetic radiation detector