Lisa Macpherson

Lisa Macpherson is Public Knowledge’s Policy Director, overseeing policy analysis related to healthy information systems, copyright and intellectual property, emerging technologies, competition policy, and broadband. Prior to Public Knowledge, Lisa was a marketing executive at consumer brands like Fisher-Price, Timberland, Hallmark, Custom Ink, and Pernod Ricard. Her experience driving digital marketing transformation on behalf of brands led to concerns over the broader impacts of digital technology, especially behavioral advertising, on individual well-being, journalism, and democracy. She was a Fellow and Senior Fellow in Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative from 2019 through 2021. Lisa received her B.A. from Colgate University and her MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo.