Anna B. Puglisi

Anna B. Puglisi is an American security analyst who currently serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. She previously was biotechnology program director and a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET).^[1][2] She is also a member of the Center for a New American Security's BioTech Task Force.^[3] She was the U.S. National Counterintelligence Officer for East Asia between 2019 and 2020 in the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.^[4][5][6]

Puglisi holds a BA in biology, a MS in environmental science, and a MPA from Indiana University Bloomington. She also studied Chinese through the Princeton in Beijing Summer Program.^[1]

Prior to joining CSET, where she established its biotechnology program, Puglisi served for over a decade in the U.S. intelligence community as a member of the Senior Analytic Service focusing on China's technology acquisition and U.S. mitigation strategies. She received various awards including the FBI Director's Award for Excellence.^[3] She is currently a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.^[7]

In a February 2024 interview with The Boston Globe, Puglisi said of China's challenge to U.S. policymaking: "At its core, it's the challenge of a Chinese system that really blurs public and private, government and military, and creates an unfair playing field for US companies."^[8]

In a September 2024 testimony before the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, Puglisi stated that she received legal threats from BGI Group for a report she wrote while serving at CSET.^[7]

• Chinese Industrial Espionage Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation, Routledge & CRC Press, 2013 (co-authored with William C. Hannas and James Mulvenon)^[9]

• Chapter 5. The myth of the stateless global society, Chapter 12. The Impact of China's policies, and Chapter 16. Chinese students, scholarship and US innovation, in China's Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage (Routledge, 2021; edited By William C. Hannas and Didi Kirsten Tatlow)^[10]

• China's State Key Laboratory System, Georgetown CSET, June 2022 (co-authored with Emily Weinstein, Ryan Fedasiuk, and Channing Lee)^[11]
• China's Industrial Clusters, Georgetown CSET, June 2022 (co-authored with Daniel Chou)^[12]
• A Competitive Era for China's Universities, Georgetown CSET, March 2022 (co-authored with Ryan Fedasiuk and Alan Omar Loera Martinez)^[13]

• Democracies Must Empower a Biotech Future for All, Lawfare, November 20, 2022 (co-authored with Megan Palmer, Andrew Imbrie, and Daniel Baer)^[14]
• Privacy Is Power, Foreign Affairs, January 19, 2022 (co-authored with Andrew Imbrie, Daniel Baer, Andrew Trask, Erik Brattberg, and Helen Toner)^[15]

• Anna Puglisi's Testimony Before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, February 24, 2023^[16]
• Anna Puglisi's Testimony Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, August 4, 2021^[17]

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2. ^ "Experts discuss the growth of cyber threats amid the pandemic". Brookings. Archived from the original on 2024-09-23. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Anna Puglisi". www.cnas.org. Archived from the original on 2024-09-23. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
4. ^ Warrick, Joby (September 21, 2023). "China's quest for human genetic data spurs fears of a DNA arms race". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 21, 2023. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
5. ^ "Anna B. Puglisi" (PDF). U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 23, 2024. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
6. ^ Needham, Kirsty; Baldwin, Clare (July 7, 2021). "Special Report: China's gene giant harvests data from millions of women". Reuters. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
7. ^ ^{a b} Quinn, Jimmy (2024-09-23). "Ex-Georgetown Researcher Claims School Has Withheld Support amid Chinese Biotech Firm's Threats". National Review. Archived from the original on 2024-09-23. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
8. ^ Weisman, Robert (February 15, 2024). "US lawmakers, visiting Cambridge, warn of a rising Chinese threat to US biotech - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Archived from the original on February 16, 2024. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
9. ^ "Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
10. ^ "China's Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
11. ^ "China's State Key Laboratory System". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Archived from the original on 2024-09-23. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
12. ^ "China's Industrial Clusters". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
13. ^ "A Competitive Era for China's Universities". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Archived from the original on 2024-09-23. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
14. ^ "Democracies Must Empower a Biotech Future for All". Default. Archived from the original on 2024-09-23. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
15. ^ Imbrie, Andrew; Baer, Daniel; Trask, Andrew; Puglisi, Anna; Brattberg, Erik; Toner, Helen (2022-01-19). "Privacy Is Power". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Archived from the original on 2024-02-18. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
16. ^ "Anna Puglisi's Testimony Before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Archived from the original on 2024-09-23. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
17. ^ "Anna Puglisi's Testimony Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Archived from the original on 2024-09-23. Retrieved 2024-02-18.