Stan Byers

Cybersecurity Team Lead
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Stan Byers founded and leads USAID’s first Cybersecurity Team, helping the Agency build awareness and capacity to respond to current and future cybersecurity risks related to development. Past experience includes:

  • Senior Advisor at the Institute for Security and Technology and an International Security Fellow at New America
  • Former Director on National Security Council for Afghanistan/Pakistan
  • Ernst & Young’s Cyber Economics team, focus on the geopolitical and economic aspects of cybersecurity
  • TED Talk on Tech and Development