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Neal A. Pollard is chief information security officer of UBS AG, where he leads the bank’s global cyber and information security program. He is also adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, adjunct professor of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown University, and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School. Prior to joining UBS, he was a partner at EY, where he led cybersecurity services for global financial institutions. He was also partner at PwC. Before joining the private sector, he was a senior officer in the US intelligence community, serving multiple counterterrorism assignments at the National Counterterrorism Center and the Central Intelligence Agency. Prior to government service, he was board director and general counsel of the Terrorism Research Center, Inc., a corporation he founded in 1996. Mr. Pollard has had various academic affiliations, including board director of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, member of the New York Cyber Task Force, member of the United Nations Experts Group on Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes, and life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was a 2005-2006 international affairs fellow. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and the Georgetown University Law Center. He is member of the Virginia State Bar, and is based in New York City and Zurich.