Linda Lourie is a nonresident senior fellow with the Forward Defense initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She is also currently a principal with WestExec Advisors, a principal with the Washington Circle Advisory Group, and a member of the US Export-Import Bank’s Advisory Subcommittee on Strategic Competition with the People’s Republic of China, among other affiliations. She specializes in providing strategic advice to the national interest-focused private sector to navigate Washington risks, including regarding foreign ownership, control, and influence; inbound and outbound investments; China and Russia sanctions; and export controls concerning semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and the Australia-UK-US security pact (AUKUS).

Lourie was previously the assistant director for research and technology security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In this role, she served at the assistant-secretary level on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States; advised on foreign investments in emerging and foundational technology, export controls, and the CHIPS and Science Act; and led efforts on innovation and information sharing for AUKUS.

Lourie has also served as Department of Defense associate general counsel, as the general counsel of the Defense Innovation Unit, as the first director for rule of law at the US embassy in Islamabad, in the Obama White House on the Presidential Task Force on Export Control Reform, at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva. Early in her career, she was a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Lourie received her bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Harvard University, her master’s degree from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in Medieval Islamic Art History, and her law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an ex-officio member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She has received numerous awards for her government service, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Civilian Service.