Nicholas Leiserson is the Senior Vice President for Policy at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST). He was integral in the creation of the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) and serv...

Thomas Bueler-Faudree is the co-founder of August Law.

Andrew Prystai is the CEO and co-founder of Vesta.

Alena Gribanova received an MA in World Politics and International Relations at the University of Pavia and a bachelor’s degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University. She focuses on the politics of soci...

Mark Sandy served in the senior executive service at the Office of Management and Budget from 2011 to 2025 and as acting OMB director from Jan. to Feb. 2017.

Mari Lemmie is an associate editor at Lawfare.

Milena Sterio is the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law at Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

Rodrigo Pérez-Alonso is an LL.M. candidate in National Security & Cybersecurity Law at GW Law. He is a columnist for El Economista in Mexico and a former member of the Mexican Congress. He previously ser...

Mitchell Gallagher is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Wayne State University. He employs international relations theory and comparative analysis to examine how sovereignty, recognition, and pow...

Irene Loewenson is a student at Harvard Law School. Before law school, she worked for the independent news outlet Military Times, covering the Marine Corps. Irene can be reached at iloewenson@jd27.law.ha...

Luke J. Schumacher is a Ph.D. student in the University of Virginia's Department of Politics and a non-resident fellow at Columbia Law School's National Security Law Program. A graduate of Stanford Law S...

Jeff Bleich is the general counsel at Anthropic.

Jacob Sharpe was a project lead at the Defense Innovation Board in the Department of Defense. The views expressed are the authors’ and do not represent those of any organization or affiliation.

Thomas N. Burrows retired from the U.S. Department of Justice in February 2025 after working on international cooperation in criminal cases and various crime treaty negotiations for the past 26 years. He...

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is a journalist and political commentator at CNN and The Washington Post. His most recent book is "Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present."

Tim Schnabel is president of the Law Reform Institute. He previously served as executive director of the Uniform Law Commission and spent a decade as an attorney at the State Department.

Joe Khawam is the Managing Director, Legal and AI Policy at the Law Reform Institute, where he focuses on AI policy, export controls, and national security law. He previously served as an attorney in the...

Nathan Goldschlag is the Director of Research at the Economic Innovation Group.

Bharat Chandar is a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.