Managing Director, Citrus Co.

Mr. Baird served as Senior Policy Advisor and Technology and Intellectual Property Counsel to a U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, a thought leader on issues relating to technology and entertainment. He worked extensively on copyright, privacy and antitrust issues and on landmark legislation including the USA Patriot Act, the Homeland Security Act, 2002 immigration and border security reform, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, laws that transformed intelligence, law enforcement and national security information sharing requirements. He also was deeply involved with the education technology provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (“No Child Left Behind”), the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act (TEACH Act), and Senator Cantwell’s legislation to assist victims of identity theft.

Previously, Mr. Baird served as Brookings Legislative Fellow to U.S. Representative Howard Berman, Ranking Member on the Courts and Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Mr. Baird advised Congressman Berman on Internet and intellectual property issues including those arising under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, legal protection for databases, protection of trademarks on the Internet and of copyright, particularly with the advent of Napster. Mr. Baird was responsible for Representative Berman’s 1999 patent reform bill to address ‘business-method’ and biotechnology patents, and was a principle negotiator on the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN Act).

In 2008-2009, he was Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and in 2009, Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Mr. Baird currently resides in Hong Kong and Hollywood, California. His writings have appeared in journals including the Stanford Law and Policy Review and I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society published jointly by Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University and Carnegie Mellon University's H.J. Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management.

Mr. Baird provides public policy counsel to IT, entertainment, new media and Internet businesses and governments.