• David Thaw is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and an internationally-recognized expert on cybersecurity, blockchain, and related law and technology issues. Dr. Thaw has published numerous sc...
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  • Melanie Hallums is an attorney with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP’s Supreme Court & Appellate group. She graduated from Vanderbilt Law School, served as a law clerk and judicial assistant to Judge ...
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  • Katie Kopp is an attorney with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's Supreme Court & Appellate group. She represents prominent tech clients in high stakes patent appeals before the Federal Circuit, and is...
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  • Cameron Kistler is a counsel at Protect Democracy. He has served as a law clerk to the Hon. Edith B. Clement on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Hon. Lance M. Africk on the U.S Dis...
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  • Jamila Benkato is counsel at Protect Democracy. She previously served as a law clerk to the Hon. David O. Carter on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She received her J.D. f...
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  • Professor Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law and Co-Faculty Director for the Program on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. His scholarship focuses on legal issues concerning ...
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  • Jonna Mendez, a former CIA officer, is a writer and speaker with 27 years of service in the Office of Technical Service, the CIA’s equivalent of “Q” in the British service. She retired as the CIA’s chief...
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  • Alex Finley is the pen name of a former CIA officer. She has written for a number of media outlets and is the author of two satires about the CIA. “Victor in the Rubble” looks at the absurdity of the war...
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  • Preston B. Golson is a Director at the Brunswick Group and was formerly a Spokesperson and intelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.
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  • Matthew F. Ferraro, an attorney and former U.S. intelligence officer, is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a visiting fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason Law Sch...
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  • Stella M. Rouse is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, Director of the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement, and Associate Director of the University of Maryland Cri...
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  • Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland and director of the University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll. He is also a nonresident senior fello...
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  • Ashwin Phatak is an Appellate Counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC). Before joining CAC, Ashwin was an Attorney-Adviser at the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justic...
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  • Joshua Rovner is associate professor in the School of International Service at American University. In 2018 and 2019 he served as scholar-in-residence at the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Comma...
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  • Max Z. Margulies is an assistant professor of international affairs and executive director of the Rupert H. Johnson Grand Strategy Program at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His researc...
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  • Kasey Stricklin is a Russia analyst at CNA who specializes in the psychological side of information influence, including disinformation, propaganda and the technological means of their dissemination.
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  • Manal Cheema is a lieutenant in the Navy JAG Corps. She is a graduate of Tufts University and the University of Virginia School of Law. After graduating from UVA Law, she clerked on the Court of Appeals ...
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  • Amanda Sloat is a Robert Bosch Senior Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution. She is also a fellow with the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship...
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  • Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World.
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  • Jakob Bund is a research associate at the University of Oxford’s Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC), focused on the analysis of national cybersecurity postures. In this capacity, he is working...
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