Will Loomis

Will Loomis is a nonresident fellow with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, part of the Atlantic Council Technology Programs. He is also a risk and resilience advisor in the Office of the Chief Security Officer at Berkshire Hathaway Energy.

Loomis previously served as a senior policy advisor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, where he led the agency’s policy work on critical infrastructure security and resilience and offensive cyber operations. Before that, he was an associate director with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, where he led the program’s work on critical infrastructure cybersecurity and software supply chain risk management. He was also formerly the chair of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy’s Cybersecurity Policy & Technology Discussion Group and an organizer for policy at the DEF CON hacking conference.

Originally from New York, he holds a BA in political science, with a focus on international relations and securities studies from Colgate University. He is also a certified bourbon steward.