Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Stacey Dixon, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence

Dr. Stacey A. Dixon was sworn in as the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (PDDNI) on Aug. 4, 2021. She currently serves as the sixth Senate-confirmed PDDNI.

Possessing over 20 years of intelligence experience, Dr. Dixon has led the Intelligence Community at the highest ranks. Dr. Dixon joined ODNI after serving as the eighth Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from 2019-2021, where she assisted the Director both in leading the agency and managing the National System for Geospatial Intelligence.

From 2018 to 2019, she was the fourth Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), after serving as its Deputy Director from 2016 to 2018. Before joining IARPA, Dr. Dixon served as the Deputy Director of NGA’s research directorate, where she oversaw geospatial intelligence research and development. She held additional leadership roles at NGA as the Chief of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs and Deputy Director of the Corporate Communications Office.

Prior to serving at NGA, Dr. Dixon was a staff member for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. She first started her intelligence career at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2003, where she was assigned to the National Reconnaissance Office’s advanced systems and technology directorate.

An accomplished leader, Dr. Dixon holds both a doctorate and master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. She was also a chemical engineer postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Dixon serves as a presidentially nominated member of the Board of Visitors to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and is ODNI’s liaison to Spelman College’s Center for Excellence for Minority Women in STEM. Dr. Dixon is a native of the District of Columbia, where she currently resides.

**Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security**
Ambassador Bonnie Denise Jenkins, PhD has served as the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security since July 22, 2021. She previously served in the Obama Administration as Special Envoy and Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN) from July 2009 until January 2017. Ambassador Jenkins coordinated U.S. efforts on threat reduction globally and U.S. government programs in chemical, biological, nuclear, and radiological (CBRN) security. She was the State Department lead for all four of the Nuclear Security Summits held from 2010 to 2016, as well as the U.S. Representative to the G7 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction. Before serving as Coordinator, she was a Legal Adviser to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency where she provided advice to U.S. ambassadors and delegations negotiating arms control and nonproliferation treaties. Ambassador Jenkins also provided legal advice to treaty implementation bodies including the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Open Skies Treaty, the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, and the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). She has worked with international institutions such as the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Health Organization, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Interpol, and the BWC Implementation Support Unit.
Ambassador Jenkins has a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Virginia; an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from the Georgetown University Law Center; an M.P.A. from the State University of New York at Albany; a J.D. from Albany Law School; and a B.A. from Amherst College. She also attended The Hague Academy for International Law. Jenkins is a retired U.S. Naval Reserve Officer and received numerous awards for her military service. She is a member of the New York State Bar.
To read Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins’ full biography, please visit the U.S. Department of State website.

Keynote Interviewer

**Dr. Andrew Imbrie**
**Associate Professor of the Practice in the Gracias Chair in Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University**
Andrew Imbrie is an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Gracias Chair in Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Prior to his current role, he served as a senior advisor on cyber and emerging technology policy to the U.S. Ambassador and Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. He worked previously as a Senior Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where he focused on issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence and international security and served as an advisor to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. From 2013 to 2017, he served as a member of the policy planning staff and speechwriter to Secretary John Kerry at the U.S. Department of State. He has also worked as a professional staff member on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
His writings have appeared in such outlets as Foreign Affairs, War on the Rocks, Survival, Defense One, and On Being. His first book is Power on the Precipice: The Six Choices America Faces in a Turbulent World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020). His second book, co-authored with Ben Buchanan, is The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022). He received his B.A. in the humanities from Connecticut College and his M.A. from the Walsh School of Foreign Service. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from Georgetown. A former member of the Digital Freedom Forum and 2018 class of the Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship at the Center for a New American Security, Andrew grew up as the son of a U.S. Foreign Service officer and has traveled to more than 60 countries.

Keynote Interviewer

**Dr. Reggie Brothers**
**Operating Partner at AE Industrial Partners, former Under Secretary for Science and Technology at the Department of Homeland Security**
Dr. Reginald Brothers is an Operating Partner at AE Industrial, bringing over 25 years of experience in the defense, government services and technology industries. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of AE Industrial portfolio companies: American Pacific Corporation and Redwire. Prior to joining AE Industrial in 2022, Dr. Brothers served as the CEO of BigBear.ai which brings together leading-edge data management, analytics, artificial intelligence, cloud technologies, and cybersecurity and computer network operations to deliver advanced decision support solutions to government and business leaders. He also held successive executive roles as the CTO of Peraton and a Principle with The Chertoff Group. Prior to that, he served as Under Secretary for Science and Technology at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, having been confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2014. In this role he was responsible for a science and technology portfolio that included basic and applied research, development, demonstration, testing and evaluation with the purpose of helping DHS operational elements and the nation’s first responders achieve their mission objectives. From 2011 to 2014, Dr. Brothers served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research at the Department of Defense. In this position, he was responsible for policy and oversight of the Department’s science and technology programs and laboratories. He held senior roles at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, BAE Systems, Draper Laboratory, Envoy Networks and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Dr. Brothers has been awarded five patents and the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service. Dr. Brothers is a member of the Department of the Air Force Science Advisory Board, a Distinguished Fellow of the Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging Technology, a member of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Advisory Board, a member of the MIT Visiting Committee for Sponsored Research and a Trustee of Riverside Research.

Welcome Remarks

**Dr. Daniel Byman**
**Director, Center for Security Studies**
Daniel Byman is the Director of and professor at the Center for Security Studies in the School of Foreign Service. He is an editor at Lawfare and a member of the Department of State's International Security Advisory Board. He served as Vice Dean of the SFS undergraduate program from 2015 until 2020 and before that as director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program and Center for Security Studies from 2005 until 2010. He also led a Georgetown team in teaching a "Massive Open Online Course" (MOOC) on terrorism and counterterrorism for EdX. Professor Byman is also a part-time Senior Fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. From 2002 to 2004 he served as a Professional Staff Member with the 9/11 Commission and with the Joint 9/11 Inquiry Staff of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. Before joining the Inquiry Staff he was the Research Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation. Previous to this, Professor Byman worked as an analyst on the Middle East for the U.S. government. His latest book is *Spreading Hate: The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism* (Oxford, 2022). He is also the author of *Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad* (Oxford, 2019); *Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know* (Oxford, 2015); *A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism* (Oxford, 2011); *The Five Front War: The Better Way to Fight Global Jihad* (Wiley, 2007); *Deadly Connections: States that Sponsor Terrorism* (Cambridge, 2005); *Keeping the Peace: Lasting Solutions to Ethnic Conflict* (Johns Hopkins, 2002); and co-author of *Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover from the Iraqi Civil War* (Brookings, 2007) and *The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might* (Cambridge, 2002). Professor Byman has also written extensively on a range of topics related to terrorism, international security, civil and ethnic conflict, and the Middle East. His recent articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, as well as journals including Political Science Quarterly, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, International Security, and Journal of Strategic Studies.

**Dr. Dewey Murdick**
**Executive Director, Center for Security and Emerging Technology**
Dewey Murdick is the Executive Director at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). He serves as an unpaid advisor to the OECD Network of Experts on AI (ONE AI) and for the National Network for Critical Technology Assessment. Prior to joining CSET as its founding Director of Data Science, he was the Director of Science Analytics at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where he led metric development, data science, and machine learning and statistical research for scientist-facing products and science-related initiatives. Dewey served as Chief Analytics Officer and Deputy Chief Scientist within the Department of Homeland Security. At the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), he co-founded an office in anticipatory intelligence and led programs in high-risk, high-payoff research in support of national security missions. He has also held positions in intelligence analysis, research, software development and contract teaching.
Dewey’s research interests include connecting research and emerging technology to future capabilities, emerging technology forecasting, strategic planning, research portfolio management, and policymaker support. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the University of Virginia and a B.S. in Physics from Andrews University.

Panel 1: Shaping the Terrain: How the United States Can Promote Innovation and Protect Critical Technology

**Moderator: Abraham Newman**
**Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University**
Professor Newman received his BA in International Relations from Stanford University and his PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
He is a professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University.
His research focuses on the ways in which economic interdependence and globalization have transformed international politics. He is the co-author of Of Privacy and Power: the Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security (Princeton University Press 2019), co-author of Voluntary Disruptions: International Soft Law, Finance, and Power (Oxford University Press: 2018), author of Protectors of Privacy: Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy (Cornell University Press: 2008) and co-editor of How Revolutionary was the Digital Revolution: National Responses, Market Transitions, and Global Technologies (Stanford University Press: 2006). His work has appeared in a range of journals including Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, International Security, Nature, Science, and World Politics

**Emily Kilcrease**
**Senior Fellow and Director of Energy Economics, and Security Program, Center for New American Security**
Emily Kilcrease is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at CNAS. Her research focuses on the U.S.-China economic relationship; alignment of national security objectives and economic policy; and geoeconomic statecraft. Kilcrease previously served as a deputy assistant U.S. trade representative (USTR), overseeing the development, negotiation, and coordination of U.S. foreign investment policy. She served as the senior career staffer leading USTR’s work on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and coordinated USTR’s policy engagement on related national security and economic tools, including export controls and supply chain risk management.
Kilcrease’s commentary has been cited by major national press outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters, NPR, and ABC News. She has testified on coercive economic statecraft before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
Kilcrease received her MA in international relations, with a concentration in international development and economics, from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She received her BA in government from Georgetown University.
To read Emily Kilcrease’s full biography, please visit the CNAS website.

**Kevin Wolf**
**Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Center for Security and Emerging Technology**
Kevin Wolf is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, where he provides advice, commentary, and analysis regarding export control and related issues. Kevin was the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration from 2010-2017, where he was responsible for administering U.S. dual-use export control regulations and policy. He was one of the primary drafters and implementers of the Obama Administration’s Export Control Reform effort, which significantly modified U.S. defense trade controls involving allied countries. He was also one of the primary Commerce Department representatives to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Kevin is a partner in the international trade group of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where he provides advice and counsel regarding export control compliance and related issues. He is also a Special Compliance Officer responsible for monitoring a consent agreement between the State Department and a defense contractor regarding past export control violations. Kevin is a frequent speaker and commentator on export control issues and has been working in the area since 1993.

Sarah Stewart

CEO and Executive Director, Silverado Policy Accelerator

Sarah V. Stewart is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Silverado Policy Accelerator. Ms. Stewart has nearly two decades of experience as an international trade lawyer, trade policy expert, and trade negotiator. Immediately prior to joining Silverado, Ms. Stewart led the public policy efforts at Amazon on U.S. trade policy and export controls matters. From 2013 to 2018, Ms. Stewart worked for the Office of the United States Trade Representative, with her most recent position being the Deputy Assistant USTR for Environment and Natural Resources. During her time at USTR, Ms. Stewart was the lead environment chapter negotiator for the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations with the European Union. Prior to joining USTR, Ms. Stewart served in different legal and policy roles at the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International, including spearheading a first-ever international legal group. Ms. Stewart began her career at the Law Offices of Stewart and Stewart, where she worked on behalf of U.S. manufacturing companies and workers. Ms. Stewart serves as a policy advisor for the Center for Climate and Trade, is a fellow at the National Security Institute, and is on the advisory board of American University's Washington College of Law Program on Environmental and Energy Law.

Panel 2: Volunteer Force: Tech, Tech Companies, and Ukraine

**Moderator: Emelia Probasco**
**Senior Fellow, Center for Security and Emerging Technology**
Emelia (Emmy) Probasco is a Senior Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where she works on the military applications of Artificial Intelligence. Prior to joining CSET, she was the Chief Communications Officer and Communications Department Head at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), leading technical and institutional communications to support and drive APL’s strategic vision. Prior to APL, Emmy served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy, deploying twice to the Indo-Pacific. She also served in the Pentagon as the speechwriter to the Chief of Naval Operations and at the U.S. Naval Academy as an instructor in political science. She has masters’ degrees in Forced Migration and Economic and Social History from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a degree in Political Science from the U.S. Naval Academy.

Pablo Chavez

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Technology and National Security Program, Center for New American Security

Pablo Chavez is a technology policy expert who most recently served as Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Public Policy for Google Cloud until February 2022. In that role, Pablo led an international team of policy professionals addressing critical issues, such as digital sovereignty, cybersecurity, and AI. Working closely with Google Cloud’s business, product, and engineering leadership, Pablo led Google Cloud’s policy strategy on key cloud products, technical infrastructure investments, and business transactions globally and across sectors.

Prior to rejoining Google in 2018, Pablo served as Microsoft’s General Manager for US Public Policy after Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in 2016. Before taking on his combined Microsoft-LinkedIn role, from 2014 to 2018, Pablo was LinkedIn's Vice President of Global Public Policy and Government Affairs. In that role, he founded the company’s public policy team, launched its public policy-focused workforce and future of work research and partnership program, and steered the company through global content regulation issues. Before joining LinkedIn, Pablo was a Senior Director of Public Policy with Google and managed a wide range of policy issues involving privacy and security, intellectual property, content regulation, competition, and international trade and market access issues relevant to the digital economy.

Before moving to the private sector, Pablo served as a Senior Counsel for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation under Senator John McCain’s chairmanship and as Chief Counsel to Senator John McCain. As counsel to the Committee, Pablo advised Chairman McCain and other Committee members on the Committee’s issues, including corporate governance, Internet regulation and taxation, and consumer protection matters. As counsel to Senator McCain, Pablo worked on a broad range of issues, including technology policy, financial services regulations, and CFIUS reform.

Pablo currently serves on the advisory boards of the Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. He received his law degree from Stanford Law School and his bachelor's degree in public and international affairs from Princeton University.

Pablo's research focuses on the impact of emerging cloud-related laws, regulations, and policies on national security and economic development.