Timothy Shiou-Ming Wu (born 1971 or 1972) is a Taiwanese-American legal scholar who served as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy at the United States from 2021 to 2023.

[22] Following his clerkships, Wu moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, worked at Riverstone Networks, Inc. (2000–02),[23] and then entered academia at the University of Virginia School of Law.

He looks at the example of Apple Inc., which began as a company dedicated to openness, that evolved into a more closed system under the leadership of Steve Jobs, demonstrating that the internet industry will follow the historical cycle of the rise of information empires (although Wu discussed Google as an important counterpoint).

[13] Wu ran for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 2014, campaigning alongside gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout.

[29][30] In a Washington Post interview discussing his candidacy, Wu described his approach to the campaign as one positioned against the concentration of private power: "A hundred years ago, antitrust and merger enforcement was front page news.

[33] Following Joe Biden's election as President of the United States, Wu had been mentioned as a possible appointee to the Federal Trade Commission, a body for which he has previously served as a senior advisor.

[34] On March 5, 2021, Wu confirmed a previous report[35] that he would be joining the Biden administration's National Economic Council as a Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy.

[37] On December 31, 2022, The New York Times reported that Mr. Wu's last day at the National Economic Council would be Wednesday, January 4, 2023, ending his 22-month tenure as special assistant to the Biden administration.

[7][8] In 2006, Wu also was invited by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to help draft the first network neutrality rules attached to the AT&T and BellSouth merger.

[6] In 2011, Wu joined the Federal Trade Commission as an academic in residence and Senior Policy Advisor,[39] a position later held by Paul Ohm in 2012,[40] and then by Andrea M. Matwyshyn in 2014.

[1] Wu has won two Lowell Thomas Awards for travel journalism,[48] and was on the Director's Advisory Group for the Sundance Film Festival in the late 2010s.