Betsy Cooper
Director, Aspen Tech Policy Hub, Aspen Digital, The Aspen Institute
Betsy Cooper is founding director of the Aspen Tech Policy Hub at Aspen Digital. Part of the Aspen Institute, the hub is a West Coast policy incubator training tech-policy entrepreneurs. A cybersecurity expert, she was previously founding executive director of the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at University of California, Berkeley. Before that, Cooper was an attorney advisor and policy counselor at the US Department of Homeland Security. She has worked 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, among others. A senior advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group, Cooper has written over 20 manuscripts and articles on American and European homeland security policy.
