Anna B. Puglisi | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Indiana University (BS, MS, MPA) |
Occupation(s) | Security analyst, former senior U.S. intelligence official |
Employer | Center for Security and Emerging Technology |
Awards | FBI 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]
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]
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]
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]