The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of an actual cyberattack, he observed, is cyber operations’ “blurring of the line between peace and war.” Or, as Nye wrote, “in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program’s user.”
Biography
Chaitra Chandrasekhar is a partner at Oliver Wyman. Chaitra advises senior decision-makers across the private and public sectors on questions related to strategy, innovation, policy, analytics, and transformation.
Chaitra has 15 years of experience helping clients, ranging from national governments to large private and supranational entities across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia. She is passionate about inclusion, gender issues, and financial health. She is a thought leader, speaker, and author of publications such as Women’s Financial Inclusion and Breaking New Ground in Fintech.
She received a Master of Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Management from the Sloan School of Management. She is a food and wine aficionado, holding a Diploma in Wines and Spirits from the WSET (Wine & Spirit Education Trust).
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