Jaci McDole
- Executive Director, Copyright and Creativity, Global Innovation Policy Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Jaci McDole joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) in April 2023, and she now serves as an executive director. Her portfolio includes the creative ecosystems, digital intellectual property (IP) theft and enforcement, the intersection between AI and IP, right to repair, and most other copyright-related issues.
She coordinates the Chamber’s annual digital piracy symposium – “The Anti-Piracy Playbook” – which addresses cross-industry concerns and best practices for protecting IP in the digital realm, as well as the connection between digital IP theft and organized crime. Jaci was selected as a 2026-2027 IPPI Thomas Edison Fellow, and her research will focus on this criminal nexus. Additionally, she has published several blogs and case studies highlighting the IP-intensive communities, small-to-medium enterprises, World IP Day, and the harms that consumers and the economy face due to digital IP crimes. In 2025, she oversaw the production and release of Unlocking Creativity: The Socioeconomic Benefits of Copyright, a report that synthesized more than 70 research papers focused on the economic impact of both the copyright-intensive industries and digital piracy.
Before joining GIPC, she worked on IP and innovation policy with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, the Institute for Intellectual Property Research, and the former Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property at George Mason University.
Jaci holds a double B.A. in music business and radio-television with a minor in marketing, an M.S. in education, and a J.D. with a specialization in IP, all from Southern Illinois University.
