Ryan Connor is a government affairs manager at Microsoft. He manages campaigns, executive external relations and communications, and other projects, working across policy, politics and external affairs to advance Microsoft’s public policy agenda. Before joining Microsoft, Ryan was at Burson Cohn & Wolfe, a global public relations firm, for more than five years, where he worked in the New York and Washington, DC offices in the Public Affairs and Crisis Group. In this role, Ryan provided strategic communications, public affairs, issues management and crisis communications counsel primarily to the firm’s technology clients. Ryan has a B.A. in Sociology from New York University.