--- title: Ravi Iyer | TIME description: Ravi Iyer is the managing director of the University of Southern California Marshall School’s Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision-Making. He advises The Anxious Generation Movement, the Minnesota Attorney General’s office, and the United Kingdom’s telecommunications regulator Ofcom on improving the societal impact of technology. Previously, he spent many years leading data science, research, and product teams across Meta toward improving social media safety through design. canonical: https://time.com/author/ravi-iyer/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/ravi-iyer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ravi Iyer ## Ravi Iyer Ravi Iyer is the managing director of the University of Southern California Marshall School’s Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision-Making. He advises The Anxious Generation Movement, the Minnesota Attorney General’s office, and the United Kingdom’s telecommunications regulator Ofcom on improving the societal impact of technology. Previously, he spent many years leading data science, research, and product teams across Meta toward improving social media safety through design. ## Ravi Iyer *  Jul 18, 2026 ### [What the World Should Learn from Australia’s Social Media Law](https://time.com/article/2026/07/18/the-world-should-learn-from-australia-s-social-media-law/) Half a year since Australia restricted social media companies from providing accounts to kids under ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 16, 2026 ### [Why Fines Alone Won’t Make Social Media Safer For Kids](https://time.com/article/2026/06/16/why-fines-alone-won-t-make-social-media-safer-for-kids/) If courts want to reduce harm, they must focus on product design choices, measurable safety outcomes... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 1, 2023 ### [Why Online Moderation Often Fails During a Conflict](https://time.com/6330318/online-moderation-fails-war/) Content moderation is the wrong tool to focus on for improving current online discourse about Israel... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: {"meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"edges":\[\],"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection"},"twitter\_card":null,"\_\_typename":"Seo"} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/ravi-iyer/","name":"Ravi Iyer"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/ravi-iyer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/ravi-iyer/"},"name":"Ravi Iyer","jobTitle":"","description":"Ravi Iyer is the managing director of the University of Southern California Marshall School’s Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision-Making. He advises The Anxious Generation Movement, the Minnesota Attorney General’s office, and the United Kingdom’s telecommunications regulator Ofcom on improving the societal impact of technology. Previously, he spent many years leading data science, research, and product teams across Meta toward improving social media safety through design.","url":"https://time.com/author/ravi-iyer/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```