Ryan Nabil is Director of Technology Policy at the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, where he leads research on US–UK–EU regulation of artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and digital markets. He has provided written and oral evidence to the United Nations, UK Parliament, the White House, Ofcom, and the Federal Communications Commission on global AI governance, science diplomacy, and digital policy. His research has been cited by leading outlets and journals, including Foreign Policy and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, and in proceedings before the US Supreme Court. 

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He has authored over 50 articles in Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, The Diplomat, Australian Outlook, and Internationale Politik (German Council on Foreign Relations), among other outlets. His academic work has appeared in the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy, Yale Journal of International Affairs, and Europe in Flux.

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Previously, Ryan served as Research Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Fox International Fellow at Sciences Po Paris, focusing on Europe–China relations and Sino–Russian approaches to global governance. His earlier roles include serving as an economic policy researcher at the American Enterprise Institute and Rosenthal Fellow in International Relations in the US Congress.

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He holds an MA in Global Affairs from Yale University, where his thesis examined UK/EU–China relations and their implications for European economic and foreign policy. While at Yale, he served as managing editor of the Yale Journal of International Affairs, research fellow with the Stanford US–Russia Forum, and teaching fellow for courses on diplomacy and Chinese history. He also holds a BA in Economics from Kenyon College.

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Ryan has advanced proficiency in German, French, Bengali, and Spanish, and intermediate proficiency in Russian and Chinese.