Audrey Kurth Cronin is currently Trustees Professor of Security and Technology and founding director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Cronin’s career has combined academic positions and government service. Prior to her current role, she was a faculty member of the School of International Service from August 2016 and earned the honored title of Distinguished Professor in 2021. She was also the founding director of the Center for Security, Innovation and New Technology at AU. Professor Cronin was a faculty member and director of the core course on War and Statecraft at the U.S. National War College (2007-2011). Before which she was Academic Director of Studies for the Oxford/Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War at Oxford University (Nuffield College), from 2005 to 2007. Prior, she was Specialist in Terrorism at the Congressional Research Service, responsible for advising Members of Congress in the aftermath of 9/11. She’s served in the U.S. Executive branch, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy. She frequently consults at the most senior levels of the U.S. government. Professor Cronin is widely published on strategy and nonstate actors. Her best-known book is How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns (Princeton University Press), which has been translated into Chinese. In 2017, The New Yorker called it “a landmark study.” Her newest book, Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists (Oxford University Press, 2020), analyzes the risks and opportunities of emerging technologies, especially their use by individuals, terrorists, insurgents, proxy armies, and other private actors. It won the 2020 Airey Neave international prize for “the most significant, original, relevant, and practically valuable contribution to the understanding of terrorism.”