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# Julian Sanchez 

Former Senior Fellow

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Julian Sanchez was a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and studied issues at the busy intersection of technology, privacy, and civil liberties, with a particular focus on national security and intelligence surveillance. Before joining Cato, Sanchez served as the Washington editor for the technology news site *Ars Technica*, where he covered surveillance, intellectual property, and telecom policy.

He has also worked as a writer for *The Economist*’s blog *Democracy in America* and as an editor for *Reason* magazine, where he remains a contributing editor.

Sanchez has written on privacy and technology for a wide array of national publications, ranging from the *National Review* to *The Nation*, and is a founding editor of the policy blog *Just Security*.

He studied philosophy and political science at New York University.

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