Melissa Hathaway (born November 10, 1968) is a leading expert in cyberspace policy and cybersecurity.
She served under two U.S.
presidential administrations from 2007 to 2009, including more than 8 months at the White House, spearheading the Cyberspace Policy Review for President Barack Obama after leading the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) for President George W.
Bush.
She is President of Hathaway Global Strategies LLC, a Senior Fellow and member of the Board of Regents at Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Canada, and a non-resident Research Fellow at the Kosciuszko Institute in Poland.
She was previously a Senior Adviser at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.