Dr. Amy Zegart

Biography

Amy Zegart is a prominent scholar specializing in U.S. intelligence, cybersecurity, political risk, and grand strategy. She serves as the Morris Arnold Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Zegart's significant works include the award-winning book 'Spying Blind: The CIA, The FBI, and the Origins of 9/11' and the best-selling 'Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence,' which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Additionally, she has coauthored 'Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity' and edited 'Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations.' Throughout her career, Zegart has advised intelligence and foreign policy officials and served in various key roles at Stanford, including Director of the Robert Marion Oster National Security Affairs Fellows Program and founder of the Stanford Cyber Policy Program. With degrees from Harvard and Stanford, she has received numerous awards such as the Fulbright Fellowship and the American Political Science Association’s Leonard D. White Dissertation Prize. Zegart has also taught at UCLA and worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company.

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