Jonathan Reiber

Jonathan focuses on thought leadership, strategic communications, and content development. During Barack Obama’s administration, he served as Chief Strategy Officer for Cyber Policy in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense. His writing has appeared and been highlighted by Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, DefenseOne, The Christian Science Monitor, The San Jose Mercury News, and Literary Hub among others. He is the author of two book-length Berkeley monographs, A Public, Private War, and Asian Cybersecurity Futures, and was the principal author of The Department of Defense Cyber Strategy (2015) and the classified defense cyber strategy of 2010. He has held research and writing fellowships with UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. Prior to serving as CSO for Cyber Policy, Jonathan served as Special Assistant and Speechwriter to the United States’ Deputy Secretary of Defense, Dr. Ashton B. Carter, and previously as Special Assistant to the United States’ Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Dr. James N. Miller. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. You can follow him on Twitter at @jonathanreiber