Suzanne Spaulding

Suzanne Spaulding is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she established the Defending Democratic Institutions Project (DDI). She was a member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC). She served as undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), responsible for cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection, Ms. Spaulding has held key roles in both Republican and Democratic administrations and on both sides of the aisle in Congress, including as Legal Advisor for the Director of Central Intelligence's Nonproliferation Center, and General Counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Minority Staff Director for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.