Washington, DC

Lindsay Gorman is managing director of and senior fellow with GMF Technology. A quantum physicist and computer scientist by training, she leads work on US-China emerging-technology competition, artificial intelligence (AI) and democracy, and transatlantic innovation. 
Gorman recently served as a White House senior adviser on emerging technology, national security, and democracy issues. At the Office of Science and Technology and the National Security Council, she crafted US technology competition and national security strategy, and led international technology initiatives for the US-EU Trade and Technology Council and the Quad. She founded and led the council’s AI cooperation workstream. She was also the principal architect of the Advancing Technology for Democracy agenda of the Presidential Initiative for Democratic Renewal. 

Gorman’s career spans 15 years at the intersection of technology and international relations. She has served as an expert contributor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a technology adviser to US Senator Mark Warner, a jury member for German innovation agency SPRIND’s Deepfake Challenge, and a fellow with the National Academy of Sciences. Her technical background includes building machine learning systems for self-driving cars for the DARPA Urban Challenge and pioneering experiments on quantum topological materials, which Nature Physics has published.

Gorman regularly delivers keynote addresses and speaks at popular conferences such as SXSW. She has testified before the US Congress on AI, cybersecurity, and technology innovation. Her research and analyses have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, and she frequently conducts television and radio interviews. She has appeared on CNN, CBS’s Face the Nation, National Public Radio, and Bloomberg. She holds a master’s degree in applied physics from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Princeton University.

Bonnie S. Glaser is managing director of GMF’s Indo-Pacific program. She is also a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. She is a co-author of US-Taiwan Relations: Will China's Challenge Lead to a Crisis (Brookings Press, April 2023). She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Glaser has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and US policy for more than three decades. 

From 2008 to mid-2015, she was a senior adviser with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, and from 2003 to 2008, she was a senior associate in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State. Ms. Glaser has published widely in academic and policy journals, including the Washington Quarterly, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, International Security, Contemporary Southeast Asia, American Foreign Policy Interests, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, as well as in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and in various edited volumes on Asian security. She is currently a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She served as a member of the Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board China Panel in 1997. Ms. Glaser received her B.A. in political science from Boston University and her M.A. with concentrations in international economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.