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    Emily Clise Tully
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    Emily Clise Tully is the Senior Director of National Security at Ginkgo Bioworks and a Visiting Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, working at the intersection of national security and emerging tech.  She helps the international and US national security communities understand and incorporate biotechnologies.  From 2018-2022, she served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, working to reorient the post-9/11 national security community to America’s emerging strategic conflict with the Chinese Communist Party, profoundly shaped by technology. Prior to her time in the Senate, Emily spent nearly a decade at the CIA, where she wrote for the president as a political analyst, served a warzone tour, and served in leadership positions in the Director’s Area in the Office of Public Affairs and Congressional Affairs.  A Carnegie Mellon University graduate and proud native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she lives in Washington, DC with her family.

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Emily Clise Tully is the Vice President of National Technology Strategy at In-Q-Tel, the strategic investor that connects the U.S. national security community with cutting-edge technology companies, and a Visiting Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, working at the intersection of national security and emerging tech. She served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, where she worked to reorient the post-9/11 national security community to America’s emerging strategic conflict with the Chinese Communist Party, profoundly shaped by technology. Emily began her career at the CIA, where she served nearly a decade writing for the president as a political analyst, completing a warzone tour, and holding leadership positions in the Director’s Area in the Office of Public Affairs and Congressional Affairs. Emily most recently was Senior Director of National Security at Ginkgo Bioworks, leading business development efforts to help the international and U.S. national security communities understand and incorporate biotechnologies. A Carnegie Mellon University graduate and proud native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she lives in Washington, DC with her family.

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