John P. Carlin is a partner at Paul, Weiss where he leads the Investigations, Cybersecurity & Data Protection, and National Security practices, and advises industry-leading organizations on matters involving privacy and cybersecurity, crisis management, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), sanctions and export control, white collar defense and internal investigations. He has served as a top-level official in both Republican and Democratic administrations, including as the Acting Deputy Attorney General of the United States, as the top national security official for the U.S. Department of Justice, as the Chief of Staff of the FBI and as a senior federal prosecutor. Throughout his career, John has responded to just about every major cyber incident—including the Russian SolarWinds intrusion, the North Korean cyber-attack on Sony, the Iranian cyber-attacks on various NYC banks and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attacks. John is the author of Dawn of the Code War: America’s Battle Against Russia, China and the Rising Global Cyber Threat. He was an inaugural Fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’ Homeland Security Project. John is also the Founding Chair (now Chair Emeritus and Strategic Advisor) of the Aspen Institute’s Cybersecurity and Technology program.