Miriam Chaum
Head of Public Policy for Self-Driving Cars, Uber



Miriam Chaum is Uber’s Head of Public Policy for Self-Driving Cars. In this role, she works closely with Uber’s local policy teams and Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group to advance policies that promote the safe development and deployment of automated vehicles. Miriam has worked for over ten years on a range of social and environmental policy issues for the public, private, and non-profit sectors in the U.S. and abroad. Miriam joined Uber in 2018 from an education technology start-up. Miriam previously worked as public sector consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and as a senior policy advisor to the central government in New Zealand. Miriam holds a BA in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.