Thomas Lind

Tom Lind is currently Senior Advisor to the National Cyber Director at the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD). In this role, he is the front office lead for policy across the full portfolio of the Office, with an emphasis on national security and China. He initially joined the White House as ONCD’s Senior Director for Intelligence before being appointed to his current role.

Prior to the White House, he held multiple leadership positions in the National Security Agency across operations and analysis, where he specialized in China cyber operations, counterintelligence, and foreign influence. He has conducted field operations overseas, led operational counterintelligence programs, and instructed courses on PRC intelligence at the National Intelligence University. His most recent roles include Deputy SME for China CI, Cryptologic National Intelligence Officer for China & the Pacific, and Counter-AI Lead for the Cybersecurity Directorate’s China division. Prior to joining the intelligence community, he had careers in the private sector and academia: as Director of Strategic Intelligence at global cyber threat intelligence firm BlueVoyant, where he guided multinational corporations and defense agencies on state-aligned cyber risks, and as the Cybersecurity Fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute. There, he taught Columbia’s first Cyber Threat Intelligence course, wrote and consulted for the DoD and Treasury on cyber warfare, and helped formulate the 2018 USCYBERCOM Command Vision.

Mr. Lind is also a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He holds a first-class BA from Oxford University and master’s degrees from Columbia University and Sciences Po.