Ian Adams
Executive Director
Ian Adams serves as executive director of the International Center for Law & Economics. He leads ICLE’s strategic planning, program development, and organizational growth.
His policy work focuses on how emerging technologies disrupt law and regulation, with particular emphasis on automation and the future of work, privacy, and insurance.
Earlier, he spent nearly a decade as an attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. He also held leadership roles at public-policy think tanks, worked on staff in the California and Oregon state legislatures, and served as a judge advocate in the California State Guard.
He is admitted to practice law in California, the District of Columbia, and Illinois.
Adams earned bachelor’s degrees in history and philosophy from Seattle University and a J.D. from the University of Oregon.
