BRANDON J. PUGH

Brandon Pugh currently serves in the federal government, where he responsible for advising on all cyber, electronic warfare, and information advantage matters, including issues of readiness, budget, capabilities and strategy.

Brandon also continues to serve in the U.S. Army Reserve as a national security law professor at The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, having previously served as a paratrooper and international law officer. Brandon is also a nonresident fellow with the Army Cyber Institute at the United States Military Academy at West Point, a member of the International Association of Privacy Professional’s Research Advisory Board, a member of the Federalist Society's cyber and privacy working group, and a board member for both the Ithaca College Cybersecurity Program and a governor’s advisory council.

Most recently, he served as the director and a resident senior fellow for a DC-based think tank, focusing on emerging cyber and national security threats, data privacy and security, and artificial intelligence.

His past roles include serving as a fellow with the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Managing Editor of the Journal of Law and Cyber Warfare; Legislative Counsel for the New Jersey General Assembly Minority Office, handling nearly all policy and legislation on cybersecurity and emerging technology; President and CEO of a Homeland Security Advisory Firm; and member of the Rutgers University Cybersecurity Program Board.

Brandon also served as an elected and appointed official at the local, county, and state levels. This includes service as Vice President for legislation of the New Jersey School Boards Association, a quasi-governmental entity representing the state’s nearly 600 school boards. His early work was in emergency management and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear incidents.

Brandon has presented and been published dozens of times; delivered congressional testimony; appeared on C-SPAN and other networks; contributed to the U.S. Army’s Critical Infrastructure Resiliency Project; and prepared cybersecurity guidance sent to thousands of public entities. He has received awards for his work from members of Congress and state legislators, among others.

He holds a juris doctorate from Rutgers Law School and a bachelor’s degree from The College of New Jersey. He is a master continuity practitioner through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a Certified Information Privacy Professional, and a fellow of information privacy. He is licensed to practice law in New Jersey and the District of Columbia, along with being admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States.