Samantha Ravich

Dr. Samantha Ravich is a distinguished fellow and advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ (FDD’s) Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI). She is also a distinguished advisor to CSC 2.0, having previously served as a commissioner on the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission. 

Samantha served as deputy national security advisor for Vice President Cheney, focusing on Asian and Middle Eastern affairs as well as on counterterrorism and counter-proliferation. Following her time at the White House, Samantha was the Republican co-chair of the congressionally mandated National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs in the United States Intelligence Community. More recently, she served as vice chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, and member of the U.S. Secret Service’s Cyber Investigation Advisory Board. She serves as an advisor on cyber and geopolitical threats for numerous technology, manufacturing, and services companies; as a managing partner of A2P, a social data analytics firm; and as an independent director for the board of International Game Technology.  

Her book Marketization and Democracy: East Asian Experiences (Cambridge University Press) is used as a basic textbook in college courses on international economics, political science, and Asian studies. Samantha is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and advises the U.S. intelligence community and the Department of Defense. She is a frequent keynote speaker on what corporate boards need to know about cybersecurity and warfare, trends in international security, and the future of intelligence collection and analysis. Samantha received her Ph.D. in policy analysis from the RAND Graduate School and her master’s of city planning and B.S. in engineering from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.