The Davidson Institute’s War & Peace Fellows got a rare opportunity this week: lunch with Dmitri Alperovitch, one of the most consequential figures in American cybersecurity.
Alperovitch co-founded CrowdStrike, led landmark investigations into state-sponsored cyber espionage — including Chinese intrusions into Google and dozens of other organizations — and now chairs the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a nonprofit focused on great power competition and national security policy. He correctly predicted Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and serves on the U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board.
For students thinking about careers at the intersection of technology, policy, and national security, it doesn’t get more relevant than this. Conversations like this one are exactly what the War & Peace Fellows program is built for.
