Chris Inglis, Brigadier General (Ret.)

Mr. Inglis was the first Senate confirmed U.S. National Cyber Director from 2021-23, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer from 2006-14, and, at various times across the period 1982-2025, a member of the departments of Computer/Cyber Science, and Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Military, Naval Academy, and Air Force Academies.

His public service includes 28 years of full-time service at the NSA, and post-NSA stints on various federal and private sector advisory panels to include the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission (2019-2020) which recommended a range of strategic initiatives that underpin current U.S. cyber strategy, to include the creation of a Senate confirmed U.S. National Cyber Director.

Mr. Inglis holds graduate degrees from Columbia, Johns Hopkins and George Washington Universities, and an honorary doctorate from the U.S. National Intelligence University. In more than 30 years of active and reserve military service, Mr. Inglis was rated as a U.S. Air Force command pilot and retired with the rank of Brigadier General.