Anna B. Puglisi

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Anna B. Puglisi
NationalityAmerican
Education Indiana University (BS, MS, MPA)
Occupation(s)Security analyst, former senior U.S. intelligence official
Employer Center for Security and Emerging Technology
AwardsFBI Director’s Award for Excellence

Anna B. Puglisi is an American security analyst currently serving as biotechnology program director and a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). [1] [2] She is also a member of the Center for a New American Security's BioTech Task Force. [3] She was the U.S. National Counterintelligence Officer for East Asia between 2019 and 2020 in the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC). [4] [5] [6]

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Education

Puglisi holds a BA in biology, a MS in environmental science, and a MPA from Indiana University. She also studied Chinese through the Princeton in Beijing Summer Program. [1]

Career

Prior to joining CSET, where she established its biotechnology program, Puglisi served for over a decade in the U.S. intelligence community as a member of the Senior Analytic Service focusing on China's technology acquisition and U.S. mitigation strategies. She received various awards including the FBI Director's Award for Excellence. [3]

Views on U.S.-China relations

In a February 2024 interview with The Boston Globe , Puglisi said of China's challenge to U.S. policymaking: “At its core, it’s the challenge of a Chinese system that really blurs public and private, government and military, and creates an unfair playing field for US companies.” [7]

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  2. ↑ "Experts discuss the growth of cyber threats amid the pandemic". Brookings. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  3. 1 2 "Anna Puglisi". www.cnas.org. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  4. ↑ Warrick, Joby (September 21, 2023). "China's quest for human genetic data spurs fears of a DNA arms race". The Washington Post . Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Anna B. Puglisi" (PDF). U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission . Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  6. ↑ Needham, Kirsty; Baldwin, Clare (July 7, 2021). "Special Report: China's gene giant harvests data from millions of women". Reuters . Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  7. ↑ Weisman, Robert (February 15, 2024). "US lawmakers, visiting Cambridge, warn of a rising Chinese threat to US biotech - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Archived from the original on February 16, 2024. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  8. ↑ "Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  9. ↑ "China's Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  10. ↑ "China's State Key Laboratory System". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  11. ↑ "China's Industrial Clusters". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  12. ↑ "A Competitive Era for China's Universities". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  13. ↑ "Democracies Must Empower a Biotech Future for All". Default. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  14. ↑ Imbrie, Andrew; Baer, Daniel; Trask, Andrew; Puglisi, Anna; Brattberg, Erik; Toner, Helen (2022-01-19). "Privacy Is Power". Foreign Affairs. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  15. ↑ "Anna Puglisi's Testimony Before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  16. ↑ "Anna Puglisi's Testimony Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
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