The bus will be departing from the Front Commons at 4:45 pm to arrive early due to note from WACC below.

NOTE: THE EVENT WILL START 15 MINUTES EARLY TO ACCOMMODATE A SHORT ANNUAL MEETING.

Anna Puglisi is the CEO and founder of Puglisi Ventures, a consulting firm that helps governments, private companies, and research entities secure their technology and personnel. She is a leading expert on how global technology impacts American competitiveness and national security. She pays special attention to China’s ambitions and its focus on the U.S., but also to biosecurity issues of growing U.S. public concern.

Anna serves on the National Academy of Sciences National Science, Technology, and Security Roundtable, and as a senior advisor to the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology. Previously she was a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) where she focused on policy development and global technology competition. As the National Counterintelligence Officer for East Asia, she advised senior U.S. and foreign government officials, the academic community, and the private sector on counterintelligence issues, including research security.

Puglisi has played a prominent role in designing mitigation strategies for the public and private sectors to protect technology. She testifies regularly before Congress. She is a co-author of Chinese Industrial Espionage, the first book-length treatment of the topic, as well as countless related proprietary studies. She has received numerous awards, including the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence. Anna holds an MPA, an MS in environmental science, and a BA in biology, all from Indiana University. She studied at the Princeton in Beijing Chinese language school and was a visiting scholar at Nankai University, where she studied China’s security and technology policies, infrastructure development, and university reforms. She is proficient in Mandarin Chinese.