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As the executive director of the Global Security Initiative, Nadya Bliss oversees efforts to address the complex, interdependent security challenges of today and beyond.

Bliss is an experienced leader of science and technology organizations with over two decades in the defense, security and higher education sectors. Bliss has significant experience identifying advanced research capabilities to address mission needs. The Global Security Initiative (GSI) is a pan-university organization advancing research, education and other programming in support of national and global security.

Bliss holds a Professor of Practice appointment in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence.

She also currently serves: as chair of the Computing Community Consortium and on the National Academies’ Forum on Cyber Resilience and a Standing Committee on Transformative Science and Technology for the Department of Defense. 

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Technology is advancing at a rapid pace, yet security often remains a secondary consideration, despite all the examples we have of unforeseen harms stemming at least partly from new technologies. We need to prioritize security alongside capabilities, and that goal is really at the core of my national service commitments

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