Mary Brooks is a program manager and grants officer representative for cybersecurity foreign assistance in the Bureau of Cyberspace & Digital Policy at the U.S. Department of State. She most recently was a co-author of “New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West,” a 2024 New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-nominated book that tracks the period from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the return of superpower competition. She was selected as a Public Policy Fellow at the Wilson Center from 2022-2023, where she wrote on cybersecurity and Ukraine. Prior to that, she served as associate producer and consulting producer on Emmy-award-nominated HBO documentaries. She has written and/or spoken for Lawfare, the Aspen Security Forum, BBC radio, the Hill, Morning Consult, the National Interest, and multiple conferences. Mary graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in Government and a language certificate in Arabic.