Erica D. Lonergan

Dr. Erica Lonergan is an assistant professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She also currently serves as a commissioner on the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on US Cyber Force Generation, a senior advisor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0, and an adjunct fellow in the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Previously, Erica served on the faculty at the US Military Academy at West Point, including in the Departments of Social Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and at the Army Cyber Institute. Erica also has an extensive policy background, having served as a writer of the 2023 US Department of Defense Cyber Strategy, and a senior director on the bipartisan, Congressionally-mandated US Cyberspace Solarium Commission. She also held an appointment as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, with placement at JPMorgan Chase and US Cyber Command. Erica has published widely on cybersecurity, strategy, and international security, including in American Political Science Review, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, and Contemporary Security Policy. Her co-authored book, Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace, was published in 2023 with Oxford University Press. Her second book, Open Secrets: Power and Influence in Proxy Alliances, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Erica received her PhD in Political Science from Columbia University.