Anna Puglisi

About

Anna Puglisi is the founder and CEO of a consulting firm that helps governments, companies, and research entities secure technology and personnel. She also serves as a senior advisor to the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology.

Previously Puglisi was a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, where she focused on science and technology policy development and global technology competition; and the national counterintelligence officer for East Asia at the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, advising senior US and foreign government officials at the highest levels and members of academia and the private sector on counterintelligence issues, including research security. She has played a prominent role in drafting national science and technology strategies and in designing mitigation strategies to protect technology for both the public and private sectors. She has been a part of multiple National Academy of Sciences efforts, including the National Science, Technology, and Security Roundtable. She has received numerous awards, including the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence.

Puglisi holds an MPA, an MS in environmental science and a BA in biology with honors, all from Indiana University. She studied at the Princeton in Beijing Chinese-language school and was a visiting scholar in Nankai University’s Department of Economics, where she studied China’s science and technology policies, infrastructure development, and university reforms. She is a coauthor of the 2013 study Chinese Industrial Espionage, the first book-length treatment of the topic, as well as countless related proprietary studies. She is proficient in Mandarin Chinese.