Category: Private Citizen — Corporate Director Role: Independent Director, Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN); Security Committee Chair Board Tenure: 2016 – present Committee Memberships: Leadership Development and Compensation Committee; Security Committee (Chair) Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership)

Basis for Inclusion: Daniel P. Huttenlocher holds a documented governance role as Security Committee Chair and compensation committee member at Amazon.com Inc., which made documented political donations to Trump-aligned entities while the corporation maintained significant AWS government contract relationships including with defense and intelligence agencies. Huttenlocher’s role as MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Dean provides institutional context for Amazon’s AI and cloud computing policy environment. This profile documents the factual governance relationship, not the subject’s personal political views.

Subject Classification: Private Citizen / Corporate Director. Board membership is a matter of public record (SEC filings, proxy statements). This profile documents only the governance role and its connection to documented corporate political activity.

What is NOT the basis for inclusion: Huttenlocher’s personal political opinions, party affiliation, public statements, or any protected speech are NOT the basis for inclusion. The basis is solely the documented directorial role and its fiduciary connection to corporate political spending documented in the parent corporate donor profile.

Biographical Overview

Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Ph.D. has served as the inaugural Dean of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing since 2019. Before MIT, he served as the founding Dean of Cornell Tech in New York City from 2012 to 2019, transforming it from a concept into a major applied technology campus. He is a computer scientist specializing in computer vision and machine learning and holds over 47 U.S. patents. He is co-author of The Age of AI: And Our Human Future (2021) with Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt.

Huttenlocher’s academic leadership in AI and computing at MIT places him at the epicenter of AI policy debates that directly affect Amazon’s business — particularly AWS AI services and the government AI procurement framework. He also serves on the Corning board and was previously Chair of the MacArthur Foundation board.

He holds a B.S. in Computer and Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT.

Board Role and Governance Authority

• Company: Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)
• Board tenure: 2016 – present
• Committee assignments: Leadership Development and Compensation Committee; Security Committee (Chair)

Other Current Board Memberships

• Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW)

Parent Corporate Donor Profile

This profile is a governance-accountability companion to the Amazon — Corporate Donor Profile, which documents the corporation’s political spending, pending government business, and favorable outcomes under the Trump administration.

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Sources

• Amazon.com Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, filed April 2025
• Amazon.com Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, 2026
• SEC EDGAR filing: Amazon.com Inc. (CIK 1018724)