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Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and Director, Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations

Richard von Weizsäcker Distinguished Visitor - Class of Spring 2026


Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An expert on security issues, technology development, and Chinese domestic and foreign policy, his work has appeared in the Financial Times, New York Times, Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs, among others. Segal’s most recent book, The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age (PublicAffairs, 2016), describes the increasingly contentious geopolitics of cyberspace. From April 2023 to June 2024, Segal was a senior advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, where he led the development of the United States International Cyberspace and Digital Policy.

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