Brandon Pugh is the director and senior fellow of the R Street Institute’s Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats team in Washington, D.C. Outside of R Street, he serves in the U.S. Army Reserve as a national security law professor at The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School after serving as a paratrooper and international law officer. Brandon is a nonresident fellow with the Army Cyber Institute at the United States Military Academy at West Point and a member of the International Association of Privacy Professional’s (IAPP) Research Advisory Board.

Previously, he served in elected and appointed office at the local, county, and state level, managed a cyberwarfare publication, was a fellow with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and was legislative counsel for a state legislature, where he handled nearly all policy and legislation on cybersecurity, emerging technology and privacy for the office. Brandon has presented and been published dozens of times, delivering congressional testimony and appearing on national television. He is licensed to practice law in the State of New Jersey and the District of Columbia.