Bio
Meg King is the founder of the Wilson Center’s Technology Labs and former director of the Science and Technology Innovation Program. Previously, she was an international manager for the US Department of Defense’s Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. In that role, Meg developed the strategy for a new program in Sub-Saharan Africa established by the Office of the Secretary of Defense to address major digital and physical security gaps in high-risk facilities. Until 2011, she was a senior staff member to the Chair of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment. Meg negotiated introduction of the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act in the House. Key components of that bill became law in 2015. She also shepherded passage of the Reducing Over-classification Act, which President Barack Obama signed into law in 2010. Meg was named one of the 40 under 40 think tank leaders by the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Women in International Security Network.