Alexander Klimburg

Senior Associate (Non-resident) CSIS Strategic Technologies Program

Dr. Klimburg has advised and published extensively in the broader fields of digital conflict and international tech policy since 2007. A former Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum, he also served as Director of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace and has held appointments at Harvard University and the Atlantic Council. He is currently an adjunct Senior Fellow at The Hague Center for Strategic Studies (HCSS) and holds senior affiliations the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and RAND Europe.

Dr. Klimburg has directly help shape both corporate and national cybersecurity strategies as well as operational and national security measures, informed and shape cyber diplomacy, and help formulate digital and tech policy goals at senior levels of government and the private sector.. His expertise includes the evolution of digital conflict, critical infrastructure protection, Internet governance, and the growing impact of cyberspace and frontier technologies—including artificial intelligence and quantum technologies-on all aspects of human security. A regular public speaker, he also coaches C-level executives on digital issues in order to meet new compliance requirements.

As the author and editor of numerous books, research papers, and commentaries, Dr. Klimburg has been widely featured in international media, including the BBC, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. His book, The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace, was published by Penguin Press in 2017 and was described as ""a prescient and important book"" by The New York Review of Books.