Leadership

Bradford C. Brown is the Managing Director of Qubit Advisors, LLC.™, a strategic consulting and advisory firm in Metro Washington, D.C. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the University of Montréal, Cyberjustice Laboratory, where his work focuses on the evolving role of technology in legal systems. Brad spent fifteen years at the MITRE corporation in McLean, Virginia, most recently as Chief of Administrative Operations & Technology Futures. Previously, he served as President and CEO at Protiviti Government Services, overseeing strategic initiatives in the public sector. A lawyer for over 30 years, Brad served as the 2nd U.S. Chief Counsel for Technology under President George H.W. Bush, advising on legal and policy issues at the intersection of law and emerging technologies. He founded the National Center for Technology and Law and was Associate Dean at the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University. Brad has advised federal agencies on AI as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, Ad Hoc Committee. While at MITRE, he co-authored the paper “Supervised Methods for Explainable Legal Prediction” that won the Peter M. Jackson Award from the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law. An AI tool that he co-invented is patent pending and has been commercially licensed. Brad has served as an advisory board member for both the Institute for Law and Technology at the Center for American and International Law and for InformationWeek Magazine. He is a frequent speaker and has authored and contributed to 59 published articles on law, technology, and policy. Brad holds degrees from Providence College, Harvard University, and Catholic University of America, and has completed advanced executive training in international business at Georgetown University, as well as in AI policy, ethics, and governance at the Harvard Kennedy School and at Brown University.