Kristin Lord is Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security where she oversees the center’s research and serves on the center’s leadership team. Prior to joining CNAS, Dr. Lord was a Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program and Saban Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution and Associate Dean for Strategy, Research, and External Relations at The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. She is the author of Perils and Promise of Global Transparency: Why the Information Revolution May Not Lead to Security Democracy or Peace, (SUNY Press, 2006), Power and Conflict in an Age of Transparency, edited with Bernard I. Finel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), and numerous book chapters, policy papers, and articles. She has written on cyber security, U.S. public diplomacy, reforming the State Department, and national security in the information age.