Amy Zegart

Amy Zegart has served as a director since September 2014. Ms. Zegart is the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. She is also a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. An award-winning author, Ms. Zegart has written five books examining emerging technology and U.S. national security, U.S. intelligence, cybersecurity, and global political risk. She co-taught a Stanford MBA course with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about how business leaders can manage political risk and co-authored a book on the subject, Political Risk. Ms. Zegart served on the Clinton administration’s National Security Council staff and as a foreign policy adviser to the Bush-Cheney 2000 presidential campaign. She has testified before the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, provided training to the U.S. Marine Corps, and has advised senior U.S. government officials about intelligence and national security matters for more than two decades. Her analysis has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Wired, and elsewhere. Before her academic career, she was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Ms. Zegart received an A.B. in East Asian Studies, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the American Political Science Association’s Leonard D. White Award, and research grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Hewlett Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, and National Science Foundation. Since January 2019, Ms. Zegart has served as a director, Audit Committee member, and Contracts Committee member for the fund boards of The Capital Group (American Funds), a private company. Ms. Zegart brings significant knowledge of national and international security issues to the Board.