Andrew Grotto is the founding director of the Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance at Stanford University, where his research examines governance challenges associated with digital technologies in a global context. He serves as faculty lead for the Cyber Policy and Security specialization in Stanford’s Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy graduate program.

Before arriving at Stanford, in July 2017, Grotto was Senior Director for Cyber Policy on the National Security Council, where he managed a team of senior experts advising Presidents and their cabinets on a range of cyber-policy issues, including defense of the financial services, energy, communications, transportation, health care, electoral infrastructure, and other vital critical infrastructure sectors; cybersecurity risk management policies for federal networks; consumer cybersecurity; and cyber incident response policy and incident management. He came to the White House from the Department of Commerce, where he had served as senior advisor for technology policy to Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker since  2013. He served in both roles on detail from the Information Technology Lab at NIST.

Prior, Grotto was a professional staff member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), where he was Budget Monitor for the National Security Agency, a member of the bipartisan team responsible for staff oversight of covert action programs, and the staff lead for overseeing cyber activities across the U.S. intelligence community. He was principal architect of the cybersecurity threat information sharing provisions that were signed into law by President Obama in 2015.

Grotto received his JD from University of California-Berkeley, MPA from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky.