Annie Fixler

Annie Fixler is the director of FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, contributing to the cyber-enabled economic warfare project and the Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab, and a senior fellow at FDD. She works on issues related to the national security implications of cyberattacks on economic targets, adversarial strategies and capabilities, and U.S. cyber resilience. She also contributes to the work of FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power on offensive and defensive tools of economic coercion.

Annie’s analysis has been quoted in The Cipher Brief, NPR, The John Batchelor Show, CyberScoop, and more. She has authored reports on critical infrastructure resilience, healthcare cybersecurity, and partner capacity building and edited FDD’s monographs on cyber-enabled economic warfare.

Prior to joining FDD, Annie served as the director of public affairs at a strategic communications and public affairs firm based in Washington, DC. She also worked for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington as a senior research analyst and gained expertise in congressional affairs and Middle East policy. Annie earned her BA in international affairs from The George Washington University.