Welcome to my website!

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I am a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow with Foreign and Defense Policy Department at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

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My areas of expertise include:

• cyber conflict and U.S. cyber policy

• spyware/commercial surveillance software

• NATO

• strategic challenges to transatlantic relations

 

I was previously a Consulting Fellow for the Cyber, Space and Future Conflict Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins SAIS. I am also a former USIP-Minerva Peace & Security Scholar with the U.S. Institute of Peace. ​

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My education includes:

• Ph.D., Political Science, Syracuse University

• M.A., Political Science, Virginia Tech

• B.A., Government, The College of William & Mary

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Prior to doctoral work, I was a licensed Fraud Operations Analyst at E*TRADE Financial Corporation, where I identified and resolved cases of financial fraud based on technical compromise data and client behavioral patterns.