Betsy Cooper is a Senior Advisor at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, a founding member of DGA Group, and is based in San Francisco. She draws on her extensive background in technology to support the firm’s Technology Policy practice, advising clients on operational and strategic initiatives as they plan growth and engagement in international markets.

A cybersecurity expert, Ms. Cooper joined DGA-ASG after serving as the Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at the University of California, Berkeley, where she managed a $15 million cybersecurity organization and published research on cybersecurity policy.

Previously, she served at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as an attorney advisor to the Deputy General Counsel and as a policy counselor in the Office of Policy. She has worked for over a decade in homeland security consulting, managing projects for Atlantic Philanthropies in Dublin, the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit in London, the World Bank and other organizations.

In addition, Ms. Cooper has clerked for Berkeley Law professor and Judge William Fletcher on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, as well as a Yale Public Interest Fellowship. She has written more than 20 manuscripts and articles on U.S. and European homeland security policy.

Ms. Cooper earned a J.D. from Yale University, a D.Phil. in politics from Oxford University, an M.S. in forced migration from Oxford University, and a B.A. in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University. She speaks advanced French.