Dr. Karen Guttieri, Ph.D.

Dr. Karen Guttieri is from California and considers the High Sierras—where her family settled several generations ago—her true home. She studied economics and international relations in San Francisco and earned graduate degrees in political science from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, before returning to California for a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, where she met her husband.

She taught at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, for many years before returning to Stanford to study the information revolution in military civil affairs at the Peace Innovation Lab. She later joined the faculty of Air University in Montgomery, Alabama, where she developed graduate curricula in cyber and information warfare as dean of the Air Force Cyber College.

Karen now researches cyber policy and strategy at the Army Cyber Institute and teaches national security in the Department of Social Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. She enjoys living near family in Brooklyn, New York, and spending time with her dog in the Enchanted Forest near her home on the Hudson River. She maintains strong ties with family, friends, and colleagues in Northern California and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and an honorary member of the Civil Affairs Regiment.