Professor Michael Sulmeyer is a senior fellow with the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service where he writes about the intersection of cyber conflict, national security, and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. He is also a contributing editor for the national security blog Lawfare. Previously, he was the director of the Cyber Security Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. Before Harvard, he served as the director for Plans and Operations for Cyber Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He worked on arms control and the maintenance of strategic stability between the United States, Russia, and China. In the mid-1990s, he was the System Operator (SysOp) of The Summit BBS in Santa Barbara, California. Prof. Sulmeyer received his Ph.D. (DPhil) from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, his M.A. in war studies from King’s College London, and his B.A. and J.D. from Stanford University.