Emily Clise Tully

About

Emily Clise Tully is the senior director of national security at Ginkgo Bioworks, addressing the biosecurity concerns of the international and US national security community. She served on the Senate Intelligence Committee for three and a half years, where she was responsible for the budgets of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the US Intelligence Community’s Russia mission.

As Senator Ben Sasse’s designee, Emily worked to reorient the post-9/11 national security community to America’s emerging strategic conflict with the Chinese Communist Party. Prior to her time in the Senate, Emily spent nearly a decade at CIA, where she led its Public Affairs outreach team, wrote for the president as a political analyst, served a warzone tour, and was a Congressional Fellow. Emily is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.