Alexander Klimburg (PhD) is currently a Senior Fellow at The Hague Center for Strategic Studies (The Hague) and the Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna), as well as a Senior Associate (non-resident) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington DC). Previously, he served as the Head of the Center for Cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum and the director of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace. He has held appointments as a fellow and associate of the Harvard Kennedy School as well as the Berkman Klein Center and was also a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

Alex has worked on technical and policy-related issues of cybersecurity and Internet governance since 2007, with an abiding interest in how power, conflict, and governance are changing. He has given testimony to parliaments and advised a number of governments, businesses and international organizations on cybersecurity strategies, developments in cyber and information warfare, Internet policy, and governance writ large. He has participated in intergovernmental and multistakeholder discussions, inter alia, within the UN, EU, NATO, OSCE, G20, and ITU, as well as having spoken at numerous IGFs and ICANN meetings. He has been a member of various hacker communities, national, international, NATO, and EU policy and working groups as well as advisory boards, and regularly participates in and organizes track 1.5 diplomatic initiatives as well as information security and international relations research groups. He is the author and editor of numerous books, research papers, and commentaries and has often been featured in the international media, including the BBC, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. His book, “The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace,” was published by Penguin Press in 2017 and was called “a prescient and important book” in the New York Review of Books.