To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
Alissa Starzak is responsible for public policy at Cloudflare, a web security and optimization company.
Prior to joining Cloudflare, Alissa worked for 12 years for the U.S government in a variety of national security positions, including serving as General Counsel of the U.S. Army, Deputy General Counsel (Legislation) at the Department of Defense, counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and assistant general counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency. She also worked in private practice in Washington, D.C., and clerked for The Honorable E. Grady Jolly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
She graduated from Amherst College and the University of Chicago Law School, where she served as an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.