Adam Segal

Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His book The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age describes the increasingly contentious geopolitics of cyberspace. His work has appeared in Financial Times, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs, among others. He currently writes for the CFR blog “Net Politics.”

From April 2023 to June 2024, Adam was a senior advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, where he led the development of the United States International Cyberspace and Digital Policy. Before joining the Council on Foreign Relations, Adam was an arms control analyst for the China Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists. There, he wrote about missile defense, nuclear weapons, and Asian security issues. He has been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for International Studies, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has taught at Vassar College and Columbia University.

In addition to The Hacked World Order, Adam is the author of Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge and Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China, as well as several articles and book chapters on Chinese technology policy. He has a BA and PhD in government from Cornell University, and an MA in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.