Philip DesAutels

Philip DesAutels is Principal Academic Strategist with Microsoft's Public Sector DPE team where he is focused on projects and partnerships that help build the technology workforce of the future. Philip also supports Microsoft's work with NGOs, NFPs and international organizations in the area of workforce development and education. Recent projects have involved the United Nations, World Bank, FIRST Robotics, Robin Hood Foundation, and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. Philip has been with Microsoft for six years, previously working as Director of Academic Evangelism, and as Product Manager for Web Services.

Outside of Microsoft, Philip is a researcher at the prestigious Luleå University of Technology in Sweden where he is focused on exploring the the unintended consequences of technology on the environment, society and the individual. Philip is the author of a number of academic articles, and has presented as an invited speaker at numerous conferences and institutions. Before joining Microsoft, Philip was founder and CTO of Ereo, an content-based image search service, Chief Scientist at Excite, senior principal architect at MatchLogic, a researcher in the Technology and Society Domain of the W3C at MIT, a systems Architect at John Hancock and a process re-engineer at IBM.

Philip has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial and Management Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is a graduate of the North Bennet Street School's artisan program in preservation carpentry. Philip served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan where he installed some of the regions first open email infrastructure, worked on Microcredit and developed programs to enable women's small business development. He serves on numerous boards and advisory committees for community organizations including the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Library, Human Network International, and NCIIA. He is married and lives in Boston and Washington, D.C.