Elizabeth Vish leads IST’s work engaging leaders outside the United States with recommendations from IST’s work on the Future of Digital Security. She regularly contributes to global discussions on cybersecurity best practices, including how the public and private sector can collaborate effectively and how the multistakeholder community can offer cyber capacity building to developing nations.

Before IST, Elizabeth served as a member of the State Department’s cyber foreign policy team. Her portfolios included policy related to deterrence, attribution, and cyber operations, as well as cyber capacity building and bilateral and regional engagements with Africa. Ms. Vish was a Presidential Management Fellow from 2013 – 2015, and previously worked on issues of human rights and strengthening democratic practices. She has a Master’s of Arts in International Relations with honors from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, with a concentration in Southeast Asian Studies.