Samm Sacks is a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and New America’s International Security Program. She has worked on Chinese technology policy for more than fifteen years, both with the US government and the private sector. She is writing a book (to be published by the University of Chicago Press) on data and trust in an era of strategic rivalry with China.

Her research examines on the US-China relations through the lens of technology, with a particular focus on the geopolitics of data and China’s domestic technology regulations. She has published in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and MIT Tech Review, among other outlets. She testifies before Congress and is widely cited in media including the New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Previously, Sacks launched the industrial cybersecurity business for Siemens in Asia and worked as an analyst and Chinese linguist focused on China’s science and technology development with the U.S. national security community, She led China technology analysis for the political risk consulting firm Eurasia Group. A former Fulbright scholar in Beijing, Sacks reads and speaks Mandarin.