Biography
Nicholas Leiserson serves on the board of advisors for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ (FDD’s) Center for Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI).
Nicholas is the senior vice president for policy at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST). He has spent 15 years addressing cybersecurity risk and resilience and managing multidisciplinary teams of senior professionals at the White House and on Capitol Hill. He was integral in the creation of the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) and served as one of its first employees. He has been recognized for his work leading the creation of the National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan and developing the Biden Administration’s approach to cybersecurity regulatory harmonization. He also created and executed the Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s House legislative strategy, which resulted in the enactment of more than two dozen of the commission’s recommendations within nine months.