Michael Kratsios

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Michael Kratsios link Website; (Businessman);
Born	1986-11-07
Ethnicity	Greek
Alma mater	Princeton
	Peter Thiel minion who attended his first Bilderberg in 2025, launched the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, the largest public-private computing partnership ever created.

Michael Kratsios is a minion for fellow Bilderberger Peter Thiel who was given several jobs in the Trump administrations. He was put in the second Trump administration as science advisor peddling artificial Intelligence when he attended his first Bilderberg in 2025. In March 2020, Kratsios launched the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, the largest public-private computing partnership ever created.^[1]

Education

Kratsios graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in politics and a certificate in Hellenic studies in 2008.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] Wile in college, Kratsios was an intern for U.S. senator Lindsey Graham and editor-in-chief and president of the student magazine Business Today.^[6]

Career

Following his time at Princeton, he worked for Barclays Capital and Lyford Group International, and later was chief financial officer of Clarium Capital Management.^[7]^[8]

Kratsios then was selected a principal at Thiel Capital and worked as chief of staff to Peter Thiel.^[2]^[9]^[10]

Kratsios was placed in the White House in 2017 as Deputy Assistant to the President for Technology Policy. In March 2019, the White House announced that President Trump would nominate Kratsios as the next U.S. CTO and an associate director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.^[11]

In March 2020, Kratsios launched the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, the largest public-private computing partnership ever created, to match researchers with the world’s most powerful computing resources.^[12]^[13]

On July 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Kratsios would become its Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.^[14]^[15]^[16], the third highest ranking official at the Department of Defense and the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for technology, supervising all defense research and engineering, technology development, technology transition, prototyping activities, experimentation, and developmental testing activities and programs.^[17]^[18] Kratsios also oversaw the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Innovation Unit, the Space Development Agency, and the DOD laboratory enterprise. Kratsios managed a $106 billion research and development budget, the largest in the world.^[19]

In March 2021, after the first Trump administration, Kratsios joined data management startup Scale AI Inc. as its managing director and head of strategy.^[20]

He was appointed director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President in the second Trump administration starting in 2025^[21] .

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[1] ttps://hai.stanford.edu/people/michael-jk-kratsios

[EE-2] 2.0 ^2.1 https://archive.today/20180318172230/https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060073811

[3] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20180515233947/http://www.princeton.edu/hellenic/undergraduate/certificate-students/

[4] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20091229181859/http://mkratsios.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/economics-and-voting1.pdf

[5] ttps://paw.princeton.edu/article/april-4-2017-kratsios-08-joins-white-house-tech-office-astronomer-ruiz-75-honored-and-more

[6] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20180326202557/https://www.carrollpublishing.com/whoentry.aspx?entry_number=126764

[:1-7] ttps://www.scribd.com/document/28021474/Tsinghua-Principles-of-Economics-Lecture-1

[8] ttps://techcrunch.com/2017/03/03/thiels-chief-of-staff-tapped-as-white-house-deputy-cto/

[9] ttps://www.thestreet.com/story/14026458/1/trump-taps-kratsios-as-the-white-house-chief-technology-officer.htm

[10] ttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/science-technology-white-house-trump.html

[11] ttps://www.congress.gov/nomination/116th-congress/563

[12] ttps://www.eetimes.com/supercomputer-operators-gang-up-on-covid-19/#

[13] ttps://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/white-house-announces-new-partnership-unleash-u-s-supercomputing-resources-fight-covid-19/

[14] ttps://www.axios.com/us-cto-michael-kratsios-tapped-as-acting-pentagon-tech-chief-9df20a3d-0a45-4969-a101-00bb5cf2453c.html

[15] ttps://thehill.com/policy/defense/507153-white-house-taps-white-house-cto-to-serve-as-as-acting-pentagon-tech-chief

[16] ttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-defense-tech/white-house-names-kratsios-as-pentagon-acting-tech-chief-idUSKCN24E1YT

[17] ttps://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/IF10834.pdf

[18] ttps://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2021/01/07/defense-department-reform-office-shuts-down/

[19] ttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/13/white-house-tech-adviser-gets-pentagon-cto-post/

[20] ttps://www.wsj.com/articles/scale-ai-hires-former-u-s-cto-michael-kratsios-as-head-of-strategy-11622160086

[21] ttps://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/22/trump-names-kratsios-parker-to-tech-roles-00195859

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