Anne Hobson is a technology policy fellow with the R Street Institute, specializing in free-market approaches to emerging technologies, including virtual reality, artificial intelligence, the internet of things and the sharing economy. Anne joined R Street in September 2016, having most recently served as a policy associate at Facebook’s Washington office. She is an alumna of the Mercatus Center MA Fellowship at George Mason University, where she worked with the technology policy program. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor’s in international studies and received her master’s degree in applied economics from George Mason University.