Philip E. Auerswald is an American author, economist, and cofounder and coeditor of Innovations (journal). His most recent book, The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History, explains how code has been a key driver of human development. Career Auerswald is a professor of public policy at George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government and the founding co-editor of Innovations (journal), a quarterly journal published by MIT Press about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges. Auerswald's research work focuses on entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation, both in the US and globally. Prior to his work with Innovations, Auerswald edited the Foreign Policy Bulletin from 1994-2005. With his father, Auerswald cofounded the Foreign Policy Bulletin as the successor publication to The Department of State Bulletin. The Foreign Policy Bulletin was in publication from 1991 to 2012 and resulted in documentary compilations relating to Iraq and Kosovo. Auerswald is the Founding Board Chair for The National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The stated objective of NCEI is to foster entrepreneurship, invention and innovation by all Americans, using the National Mall in Washington DC as a platform. Fellow board members include Vint Cerf, Carly Fiorina, and Dean Kamen. In April, 2016, The National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation hosted an event at the National Academy of Sciences Focused on planning for the 250th Anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. As of July 2018, Auerswald has served as the Chief Academic Officer of the Hult Prize Foundation. In that capacity, Auerswald provides oversight and direction to all aspects of the Hult Prize Foundation’s educational initiatives. With Hult Prize cofounder Ahmad Ashkar, he is responsible for leading the production of the challenge document that serves every year as the guide to the students who participate in the Hult Prize. He was also the founding executive director of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Network. GERN initiated in October 2013 by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), to address the need for better entrepreneurship research. Auerswald has said that GERN seeks convergence by connecting supporters of entrepreneurship research to enable them to work collaboratively on developing new research methods and to align around similar goals. From 2010 to 2013 Auerswald was an advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative, focusing on job creation and market-based solutions. He has authored and co-author of numerous books, reports, and research papers, including The Coming Prosperity: How