Anne Neuberger

About

Anne Neuberger is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. Neuberger is an internationally recognized leader in cybersecurity, risk management, and emerging technology policy, with deep expertise developed through senior roles at the White House and the National Security Agency (NSA). She is the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University, a distinguished fellow at both the Hoover Institution and the Royal United Services Institute, and a strategic advisor at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Ms. Neuberger served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor from January 2021 to 2025. In those roles, she had primary responsibility for national policy around cyber warfare, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies, including quantum, spectrum, advanced telecommunications (5G/6G), and components of AI policy. She built and led international coalitions to address transnational threats, including establishing the US Counter Ransomware Initiative, which grew to seventy partner countries.

Prior to this role, she served for more than a decade at the NSA and the Pentagon in senior roles where she was responsible for setting strategic direction and guiding execution of complex, global operations. She led major organizational transformations, including the creation of the NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate (4,000 people), where she drove operational integration and public–private collaboration. At the NSA, she was appointed as associate deputy director of global intelligence operations (19,000 professionals) and director of the Cybersecurity Directorate. In 2013, she was appointed the NSA’s first chief risk officer, following sensitive media disclosures of the NSA’s operations. In that role, Ms. Neuberger built the NSA’s first enterprise risk management program.

She has been awarded the Department of Defense and the NSA highest civilian awards as well as a Presidential Rank Award.

Ms. Neuberger entered government service as a White House Fellow. Prior to her government service, she held several positions related to technology and operations at a large financial services firm. Throughout her government and private sector roles, she continued to devote significant efforts to transformative non-profit projects.

Ms. Neuberger has an MBA and master of international affairs from Columbia University.