As the developer of robust cybersecurity workforce development programs, curricular frameworks and educational standards, Dr. Burley is a dynamic industry thought leader advocating for holistic strategies to address cybersecurity challenges. She a proven and effective advocate for building a diverse cybersecurity workforce and global cybersecurity awareness.  
 
Diana currently the Vice Provost for Research at American University (AU) where she is also Professor of Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public Affairs and Professor of Information Technology & Analytics in the Kogod School of Business. In this role, she serves as the university’s chief research officer; responsible for stewarding the university-wide research mission, leading the research enterprise, fostering a research-oriented culture and supporting faculty led scholarly and creative activity across all disciplines. Diana also holds research appointments with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Cyber Mission Operations Group and the Idaho National Laboratory National and Homeland Security Directorate. Diana also currently serves on the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine Board on Human-Systems Integration, the Cyber Future Foundation, and the education advisory council of the Association for Computing Machinery.  
 
Prior to AU, Diana was a professor at George Washington University where she directed the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) – a 26-member national consortium dedicated to strengthening the cyber infrastructure of the United States. She led the Cyber Corps program and managed a multi-million-dollar computer science education and research portfolio for the US National Science Foundation, and has written nearly 100 publications on cybersecurity, information sharing, and IT-enabled change; including her 2014 co-authored book “Enterprise Software Security: A Confluence of Disciplines.”  

He has published widely, with his most recent books being: Transnational Advocacy Networks in the Information Society: Partners or Pawns? (Palgrave-McMillian, 2017); Making Disability Rights Real in Southeast Asia: Implementing the CRPD in ASEAN (Lexington, 2016); and The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Governance (Palgrave-McMillan, 2016). He is Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series Information Technology and Global Governance and serves on editorial boards for Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Review of Policy Research, and Journal of Political Science Education. He is former Chair of the Review Panel for the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Diplomacy, Security and Development, Science Technology Policy Fellowships, and served as a member of the inaugural AAAS Big Data and Analytics Fellowship Committee and returned to serve as its chair. He served as a member of the High-Level Panel of Advisors for the United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (UNGAID). Dr. Cogburn has been Principal Investigator on grants from a wide variety of government, private sector, and foundation sources including, the National Science Foundation Department of Education, Microsoft, Microsoft Research, Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, JPMorgan Chase, the WK Kellogg Foundation, and The Nippon Foundation. He also served on the Committee of Visitors for the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. At Syracuse University, he was tenured Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies and Senior Research Associate in the Moynihan Institute at the Maxwell School. He is past president of the Information, Technology, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association and of the International Communication section of the International Studies Association. He served as Executive Director of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission-Africa and Vice Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network. He holds a PhD in political science from Howard University in Washington, DC, where he was a W.K. Kellogg doctoral fellow at the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center.

As the director of the AU I-Corps program, she has trained over sixty teams in the lean start up curriculum. Several of the faculty/student teams have incorporated, secured patents and earned additional funding/revenue including an NIH STTR grant. Graduates of the program have gone on to prestigious doctoral programs and earned leadership positions at a variety of companies. Dr. Walters also spearheads many of the STEM partnership programs for the College of Arts and Sciences including Freddie Mac, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Capital CoLab, McKinely Tech High School and the National Student Leadership Conference.

Dr. Walters’ most recent work is in establishing the Initiative for STEM Education, Equity and Ethics which uses an ethics-approach to broaden participation in the sciences both within and beyond the University. The Initiative was recently granted a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Driving Change Award, to pilot inclusive foundational STEM curriculum for undergraduates. She is also one of the Co-PI’s on American University’s NSF Advance Grant .

Gary Corn is a retired U.S. Army colonel and a recognized expert on cyber and national security law. Prior to joining the Washington College of Law, he served over twenty-five years on active duty in the U.S. Army as a military attorney practicing national security law at the highest levels within the Department of Defense. His final five years he served as the Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel) to U.S. Cyber Command. Professor Corn is a frequently sought out speaker at international and national conferences and has published numerous articles, book chapters, and blog posts, including in the American Journal of International Law, The Temple International and Comparative Law Journal, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and on Just Security and Lawfare. During his military career, Professor Corn also served as a Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Operational Law Branch Chief in the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Army, a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, and on deployment as the Chief of International Law for Combined Forces Command in Afghanistan. Professor Corn received a JD from the George Washington University, a BA in International Relations from Bucknell University, an LLM from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, and an MA in National Security Studies from the United States Army War College.

Professor Corn is a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, a member of the editorial board of the Georgetown Journal of National Security Law and Policy, a visiting lecturer at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Center of Excellence, and an Advisory Board Director for the Cyber Security Forum Initiative.

Previously, he was a senior officer with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), where until June 2019 he served as the Chief of the Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency (CLPT). CLPT works to ensure that the Intelligence Community carries out its national security mission in a manner that protects privacy and civil liberties, and provides appropriate public transparency. As Chief of CLPT, Mr. Joel was the ODNI’s Civil Liberties Protection Officer, a position established by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Protection Act of 2004. Mr. Joel served in that position since the ODNI stood up in 2005.

Since 2015, he also served as the ODNI’s Chief Transparency Officer, appointed to the position by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Mr. Joel formerly served on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the world’s largest association of privacy professionals. Previously, Mr. Joel worked as an attorney at the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of General Counsel.  Before that, he worked in private practice, as a technology attorney at the law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge in Washington, D.C. (now Pillsbury Winthrop), and as the privacy, technology, and e-commerce attorney for Marriott International, Inc. Mr. Joel began his legal career as an officer in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps.