Ben Moskowitz

Ben Moskowitz founded Two Planets in 2026. He advises leaders in nonprofits, philanthropy, government and research, and explores new ways of thinking and working with AI through its studio and lab.

Ben has spent about twenty years building technology to empower people and the public. At Consumer Reports, where he led its Innovation Lab from 2019 to 2026, his team made Permission Slip, an app that acts as a person’s authorized agent to get companies to stop selling or to delete their data, and AskCR, a shopping agent built on independent data. With the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, he developed a framework for loyal AI agents, which serve the consumer’s interests above all others.

Before that he was a founding member of the International Rescue Committee’s Airbel Center, its innovation lab for people affected by conflict and disaster. There he was the architect of the $100M proposal from the IRC and Sesame Workshop that won the MacArthur Foundation’s first 100&Change competition, and he raised $29M for the lab’s work in eight countries.

He spent five years at Mozilla, joining the Mozilla Foundation as its sixth employee. He helped build its first fundraising program and led major initiatives with partners from the National Science Foundation to the Ford and Gates foundations, including taking Mozilla’s digital literacy work to Brazil, Bangladesh and Kenya.

Earlier he co-founded the Open Video Alliance and started the Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference with NYU Law. Across those roles he has raised more than $175M in funding, strengthening institutions and turning new ideas into impact at scale. He has taught as a professor of practice at NYU ITP and NYU Shanghai.

His family splits time between Brooklyn and Paris. At home, he and his wife are always vibe-coding something for their young daughter, from a library of her books to a catalog of her toys. His own collections run to dusty science-fiction paperbacks and old computers.