Dr. Amy Zegart is the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. She specializes in U.S. intelligence, emerging technologies and national security, and political risk.

The author of five books, Zegart’s award-winning research includes the leading academic study of intelligence failures before 9/11 — Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11 (Princeton 2007). She co-edited with Herbert Lin Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations (Brookings 2019). She and Condoleezza Rice co-authored Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity (Twelve 2018). Zegart’s newest book is Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence (Princeton 2022). Her analysis has been featured in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

Zegart served on the Clinton administration’s National Security Council staff and as a foreign policy adviser to the Bush 2000 presidential campaign. She has testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee and advised senior officials on intelligence, homeland security, and cybersecurity matters. Previously, she was Professor of Public Policy at UCLA and a McKinsey & Company consultant. She received an A.B. in East Asian studies magna cum laude from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University.