Michael John Kotsakas Kratsios (born November 7, 1986)[1] is an American business executive and government official.

[7][8][9][10] Kratsios completed a 125-page long senior thesis, titled "Economics and Voting in the Third Hellenic Republic: An Aggregate and Individual-Level Analysis of the Greek Electorate, 1985-2007," under the supervision of Markus Prior.

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.

[25] In August 2020, Kratsios announced a billion dollar investment in research institutes to advance AI and quantum R&D in the United States.

[50] Kratsios has also advocated for greater participation of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and minority serving institutions (MSIs) in the defense industrial base.

In September 2020, Kratsios announced $50 million in grants to HBCUs and MSIs to conduct research in defense priority areas.

[53] Kratsios was included in Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40” list in 2019[54] and was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2020.

[55] Kratsios is the recipient of the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the highest honorary award which can be conferred on a non-career Federal employee or private citizen.

[57] Kratsios has been published in The Wall Street Journal,[58] The Washington Post,[59] Wired,[23]Bloomberg,[27] Fortune,[60] and CNN.