George Beebe is Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is one of America’s most well-informed and insightful experts on international affairs and foreign policy, with  an especially strong background in cyber security, US intelligence, US-Russia relations. George Beebe spent more than two decades in government as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor, including as director of the CIA’s Russia analysis, director of the CIA’s Open Source Center, and as a staff advisor on Russia matters to Vice President Cheney. He has also served as President of the technology company Behavior Matrix LLC. He is the author of the book “The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe”.