Cybersecurity

Lee C. Bollinger became Columbia University’s nineteenth president in 2002. Under his leadership, Columbia stands again at the very top rank of great research universities, distinguished...

Magdi Amin is an Investment Partner with Omidyar Network (ON) in Washington, DC, where he focuses on global strategy and investments in Digital Identity, with a particular focus on the US and Africa.

Emily Bell is founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and a leading thinker, commentator, and strategist on digital journalism.

Josh Benaloh is Senior Cryptographer at Microsoft Research and an affiliate faculty member in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.

John O. Brennan currently serves as a Distinguished Fellow at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, a senior...

Geoffrey Buswick is a Managing Director and Sector Leader in the U.S. Public Finance - Governments team at S&P Global Ratings in Boston. Buswick focuses on developing research and...

Thomas Donahue — who currently works at the environmental and energy consulting firm SC&A, Inc. and serves as a cyber advisor to The Cipher Brief – retired from CIA after 32 years of service.

Thomas E. Donilon is Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute and Senior of Counsel at the international law firm of O’Melveny & Myers. He served as National Security Advisor...

Scott Flom has spent over 20 years in Executive Management, including Operations, Product Management, and Information Technology. This includes work in the Elections Systems, Equipment...

Ben Fried is Google’s Chief Information Officer, overseeing the technologies that make Googlers go. He’s the New York office Tech Site Lead, responsible for 3,000 Googlers in the company’s...

Nathaniel Gleicher is a computer scientist and a lawyer, and works at the intersection of technology, policy, and law. He has taught computer programming, built and secured computer networks...

Donna Gregg is the Sector Head for the Asymmetric Operations Sector at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), where she is responsible for more than 1,300 staff...

Avril Haines was the Deputy Director of Columbia World Projects from 2017-2020. She now serves as director of national intelligence in the Biden administration.

Jason Healey is Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs, specializing in cyber conflict and risk. He started his career as a US Air...

Dana Hyde is a senior executive with over 25 years of experience in law, public policy, and international development. She served eight years in the Obama Administration, as Chief Executive...

Jameel Jaffer is inaugural director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Previously, he was deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, where...

Merit E. Janow is an internationally recognized expert in international trade and investment, with extensive experience in academia, government, international organizations, and business.

Jeffers is the co-founder of Who Targets Me (https://whotargets.me), software to help voters understand how political campaigns are chasing their vote using social media advertising.

Eric Johnson is the Norman Eig Chair of Business and Director of the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School. His research examines the interface between behavioral decision...

Jeh Johnson is a partner with the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and the former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2013- 2017).

Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. His 2013 book, "Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time," received the Bancroft...

Nicholas Lemann directs Columbia World Projects as well as Columbia Global Reports, a book publishing venture that commissions reporting around the world on a wide range of political...

Charles Luftig is the Head of Security Policy for Bridgewater Associates. Prior to working at Bridgewater, he served as the Deputy General Counsel at the Office of Management and Budget at the White House.

Michael Lynton served as the CEO of Sony Entertainment from April 2012 until February 2017, overseeing Sony’s global entertainment businesses, including Sony Music Entertainment, Sony/ATV...

John J. MacWilliams is a Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. Prior to joining CGEP, MacWilliams served as Associate Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department...

Erel N. Margalit, Ph.D., founded JVP over 24 years ago, and is one of the chief architects of the startup nation, bringing innovation and entrepreneurial leadership to the country’s...

Mike Masnick is the founder & editor of the popular Techdirt blog as well as the founder of the Silicon Valley think tank, the Copia Institute. In both roles, he explores the intersection...

Denis McDonough served as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama from February 1, 2013 to January 20, 2017. In this role, he managed a four-thousand-member White House staff...

Dr. James N. Miller is President and CEO of Adaptive Strategies LLC, which advises clients on technology issues and building organizational capacity.

Lisa Monaco has spent more than two decades in public service and in senior management and advisory positions in law enforcement and national security. As the President’s Homeland Security...

Kate O’Sullivan is the general manager of Digital Diplomacy within Microsoft’s Corporate, External and Legal Affairs Department. In this role, O’Sullivan leads Microsoft’s global...

Sean P. Roche is a senior government executive with more than 37 years of federal service. In March 2015, he was named Associate Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation, serving...

Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, Levi Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Simha Sethumadhavan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Sethumadhavan’s research at Columbia is focused on finding practical solutions to problems in...

Brad Smith serves as the President of Microsoft Corporation. He leads a team of 1,500 professionals working in 56 countries, where they are responsible for the company’s legal work...

Alissa Starzak is the Head of Policy at Cloudflare, a web security and optimization company. Prior to joining Cloudflare, Starzak worked for the U.S government in a variety of national...

Salvatore Stolfo has been a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University since 1979. He is credited as creating the area of machine learning applied to intrusion detection in cybersecurity...

Matthew C. Waxman is the Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he directs the national security law program. He is also co-chair of the Cybersecurity Center at...

Jeannette M. Wing is Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. From 2013 to 2017, she was a Corporate Vice President...

Major General (ret.) Amos Yadlin has been the Director of Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Israel's leading strategic think tank, since November 2011.