About the speaker
Dr. Michael Sulmeyer is Professor of the Practice at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Dr. Sulmeyer has served in many senior cyber policy roles in US military and national security structures. Most recently, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy and the Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, responsible for overseeing the Department of Defense’s cyber policies and operations. Outside of government, Dr. Sulmeyer was the Director of the Cybersecurity Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, with positions at the University of Texas School of Law and Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Dr. Sulmeyer was a Contributing Editor to the national security blog Lawfare and in the mid-1990s, he was the System Operator (SysOp) of The Summit BBS in Santa Barbara, California.