Tarah Wheeler
Tarah Wheeler is an information security executive, AI researcher specializing in natural language processing, social data scientist, author, and poker player. She is chief security officer at TPO Group, a cybersecurity consulting firm focused on nation-state incident response, critical infrastructure, and cyber risk. She is a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) Board of Directors, where she chairs the Audit Committee, serves on the Governance Committee, and founded the annual EFF Poker Tournament at the DEF CON Hacking Conference. She serves on the Strategic Advisory Committee of the Common Good Cyber Fund.
She is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, affiliated with the Changing Character of War Centre at Oxford. She is an IANS Research faculty member and a foreign policy contributor on cyber warfare. She served as senior fellow for Global Cyber Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she testified before the U.S. Senate on the Cyber Safety Review Board. She was elected to Life Membership at Council on Foreign Relations in 2023.
She has been a U.S./U.K. Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security, a cyber Project Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center, the Brookings Institution’s contributing cybersecurity editor, an inaugural contributing cybersecurity expert for the Washington Post, and an International security fellow at New America leading cybersecurity capacity building with the Hewlett Foundation’s Cyber Initiative. She is the founder of Red Queen Technologies, and is the author of the best-selling book Women in Tech: Take Your Career to The Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories.
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