Last week, Director of External and Government Affairs for the CHIPS Program Office Adrienne Elrod and Head of Government Affairs at ASML Maryam Cope joined the Women Changing Policy Luncheon Series, hosted by the Progressive Policy Institute’s (PPI) Mosaic Project and moderated by Jordan Shapiro, Director of the Innovation Frontier Project at PPI.
Ms. Elrod discussed what the long-lasting impact of the historic Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act will mean for communities across the country, and what the Administration is doing to ensure a smooth and effective implementation of the law’s many provisions. Ms. Cope explained what the law will mean for companies like ASML and how it will bring the United States to the forefront of global competition in the semiconductor industry. The CHIPS and Science Act was signed into law by President Biden in August, 2022.
“Number one, first and foremost, we passed this legislation and we’re implementing the CHIPS and Science Act all around national security and economic security…Right now we basically make no leading edge chips in the United States, and we have got to change that trajectory,” said Adrienne Elrod, Director of External and Government Affairs for the CHIPS Program Office.
“I think governments around the world are recognizing that there is a need to have this resiliency, looking at the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, and [asking], what’s our target? What’s our part of this equation? And how can we contribute our expertise and our comparative expertise to this global system? So I think that it’s really a balance between domestic resiliency and globalization that we have to continue to look at,” said Maryam Cope.
“Mosaic was honored to have set the stage for such an important and timely conversation. It’s not everyday you get to hear from two of the country’s leading women working to advance the future of semiconductor manufacturing and paving the way for countless women in tech,” said Jasmine Stoughton, Director of PPI’s Mosaic Project.
Left to right: Jordan Shapiro, Director of the Innovation Frontier Project, Progressive Policy Institute; Maryam Cope, Head of Government Affairs, ASML; Adrienne Elrod, Director of External Affairs for the CHIPS Program Office at the Department of Commerce.
The Mosaic Project is an initiative of the Progressive Policy Institute that aims to put more women at the forefront of policymaking. The same handful of well-known men have dominated key policy conversations for decades, resulting in legislative outcomes that fail to reflect the richness of our society. It is the project’s mission to empower expert women with the tools and connections needed to engage with the media and lawmakers on today’s toughest policy challenges.
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