Join the Homeland Security and Defense Forum on October 13th for a roundtable luncheon with Ms. Jennifer Bachus, Senior Bureau Official for Cyberspace and Digital Policy at the State Department. Hear about the role of the State Department in promoting international cooperation on cybersecurity and coordination with U.S. allies and the private sector on cyber policy. To RSVP, please contact rsvp@hsdf.org.
About the Career of Ms. Jennifer Bachus
Jennifer Bachus is the Senior Bureau Official and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Cyberspace and Digital Policy Bureau. Previously she served as Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic. Prior to that, she served as Office Director for Central Europe at the U.S. Department of State; Special Assistant in the Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment; Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo; Political-Economic Counselor in Astana, Kazakhstan; and head of the American Presence Post in Toulouse, France. She also served in Vietnam and Jamaica, as well as on a fellowship at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
She has an M.A. from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and a B.A. from Brown University. She speaks Czech, French, and Russian, and might still manage to mangle a few words of Vietnamese.
