Laura Musikanski is executive director the Happiness Alliance (happycounts.org), a nonprofit providing tools and resources for the Happiness and Well-being Movement including the Happiness Index, since 2010. She is the chair of IEEE P7010 The Well-being Metrics Standard for Ethical Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems and co-chair of the Well-being Committee of IEEE’s Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. Laura is also co-founder of the Happiness Roundtable, a project convening grassroots happiness movement leadership, and Planet Happiness, a project bringing the Happiness Index to World Heritage Sites to address issues of over tourism and sustainability. She is co-author of the Happiness Policy Handbook, along with former Canadian Member of Parliament Jean Crowder, and Rhonda Phillips, Dean of Purdue Honors College. She is author of How to Account for Sustainability and Decoding Sustainability, and a series of articles in the the Journal for Social Change that constitute a white paper on the Happiness and Well-being Movement. She is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Community Well-being. Laura was an invited participant to the 2012 UN High Level Meeting Well-being and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm where she participated in the Civil Society working group and leads continued connection and collaboration with the Ad-Hoc Global Happiness and Well-being Movement Group. Laura is a lawyer who holds an MBA and certificates in environmental management and law from the University of Washington, where she also taught sustainability reporting for the MBA program.