The Schmidt Program hosts a conversation with Anne Neuberger, former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, on Artificial Intelligence and U.S.-China Cyber Conflict. 

Anne Neuberger is an internationally recognized expert in cybersecurity, risk and emerging technologies. She served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor in the Biden Administration. In that role she had primary responsibility for national policy around cyber and emerging technologies, including quantum, spectrum and advanced telecommunications (5G/6G) and components of AI policy. She also initiated and led the successful effort to convene 71 countries to combat trans-national cyber threats like ransomware, and money laundering via cryptocurrencies. Prior to this role she served for over a decade at NSA and the Pentagon in senior roles where she was responsible for setting strategic direction and guiding operational execution of complex, global operations. At NSA, she was appointed the civilian deputy director of global intelligence operations (19,000 plus professionals). Ms. Neuberger also established and led the Cybersecurity Directorate (4,000 people), which included NSA’s first unclassified organization to share threat information with the private sector. In 2013, she was appointed NSA’s first Chief Risk Officer, following sensitive media disclosures of NSA’s operations. In that role, Ms. Neuberger built NSA’s enterprise risk management program and guided the rebuilding of NSA’s private sector and foreign partner partnerships thereafter. She was awarded DoD and NSA’s highest civilian awards, as well as a Presidential rank award.

This event is co-sponsored by the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy.