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About the speaker

Tarah Wheeler is an information security executive, AI researcher specializing in natural language processing, and social data scientist in international conflict. She is Chief Security Officer at TPO Group, a cybersecurity consulting firm focused on nation-state incident response, critical infrastructure, and cyber risk. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford's Oxford Internet Institute and has been Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, affiliated with the Changing Character of War Centre at Oxford. She is a Foreign Policy contributor on cyber warfare. She served as Senior Fellow for Global Cyber Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (2022–2025), where she testified before the US Senate on the Cyber Safety Review Board.

She has been a US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security, a Cyber Project Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, the Brookings Institution's contributing cybersecurity editor, an inaugural contributing cybersecurity expert for the Washington Post, and an International Security Fellow at New America. She has spoken and testified on information security at the United States Senate, European Union, Malaysian Securities Commission, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the OECD, FTC, and at universities including Stanford, West Point, and Oxford. She has keynoted for NATO CyCon. She has been Head of Offensive Security & Technical Data Privacy at Splunk and Senior Director of Engineering and Principal Security Advocate at Symantec Website Security.