Betsy Cooper

Betsy Cooper is founding director of the Aspen Tech Policy Hub at the Aspen Institute. A cybersecurity expert, she previously was executive director of the Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this, Cooper served as attorney advisor to the deputy general counsel and policy counselor in the Office of Policy at the US Department of Homeland Security. Working for over a decade in homeland-security consulting, managing projects for Atlantic Philanthropies in Dublin, the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit in London, and the World Bank, Cooper has written over 20 manuscripts and articles on US and European homeland-security policy and is a senior advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group.