He later moved to the State Department’s Office of Cyber Affairs,[12] where his focus shifted to American diplomacy around internet issues, and the international legal aspects of cyberspace.

[3][14][9] On the NSC, Edelman was the primary author of the United States International Strategy for Cyberspace,[4] and oversaw the 2013 addition of cybersecurity issues to the topics discussed on the Moscow-Washington hotline – colloquially, the “red phone”.

There, he pursued several initiatives, including the creation of President Obama’s ConnectED program to provide K-12 classrooms with $10 billion in technology upgrades through public-private partnership.

[2] In that role he managed the United States National Economic Council team responsible for a range of issues including innovation and technology trade, competition and antitrust, broadband/telecom, consumer cybersecurity, data privacy, and intellectual property.

[31] In 2024 he was named President of the Washington, D.C.–based Institute For Education, co-chairing its Future of AI Roundtables with EU Ambassadors Stavros Lambrinidis and Jovita Neliupšienė.