Dr. Emily Goldman is Director for Cyber Strategy and Policy at the National Security Council and a thought leader on cyber policy. She previously served as a strategist at U.S. Cyber Command and cyber advisor to the Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State, 2018–19. From 2014 to 2018 she directed the U.S. Cyber Command / National Security Agency Combined Action Group, leading a team that wrote the 2018 U.S. Cyber Command vision, Achieve and Maintain Cyberspace Superiority. Cyber Persistence Theory: Redefining National Security in Cyberspace, with Michael Fischerkeller and Richard Harknett, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.