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Annie Fixler

Annie Fixler is the director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. She is also an FDD senior fellow, contributing to the cyber-enabled economic warfare project and the Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab. She works on issues related to the national security implications of cyberattacks on economic targets, adversarial strategies and capabilities, and U.S. cyber resilience. She also contributes to the work of FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power on offensive and defensive tools of economic coercion. Annie’s analysis has been quoted in The Cipher Brief, NPR, The John Batchelor Show, CyberScoop, and more. She has authored reports on critical infrastructure resilience, healthcare cybersecurity, and partner capacity building and edited FDD’s monographs on cyber-enabled economic warfare.