Suzanne E. Spaulding

Suzanne E. Spaulding is a non-resident senior adviser with the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she established the Defending Democratic Institutions Project (DDI). She also served as a member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC) and is part of CSC 2.0. 

Prior to joining CSIS, Ms. Spaulding was Undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security, leading the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), which has since been renamed to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). 

Ms. Spaulding served under Republican and Democratic administrations and for both sides of the aisle in Congress. She has formerly served as Assistant General Counsel at the CIA, General Counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Minority Staff Director for the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. 

She serves on the advisory boards of the University of Virginia's Karsh Institute for Democracy and the National Security Data and Policy Institute.