Robert Knake

Deputy National Cyber Director for Strategy and Budget Rob Knake is a cybersecurity policy expert with decades of experience in the field. Prior to joining ONCD, he was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a fellow at the Harvard Belfer Center’s Cyber Project, and an adviser to cybersecurity startups and Fortune 500 companies. During the Obama Administration, he served in the cyber directorate at the National Security Council and at the Department of Homeland Security’s National Protection & Programs Directorate, the predecessor organization to CISA. He is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the co-author of two books on cybersecurity.