Teddy Nemeroff is a nonresident scholar in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also co-founder and vice president of legal compliance startup Verific AI and a visiting lecturer at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.  Teddy is an expert on international technology policy and national security strategy, cyber and digital diplomacy, and artificial intelligence safety and governance. 

Teddy has almost two decades of experience working on these issues, both in government and the private sector. Previously, he served as a member of the Secretary of State’s policy planning staff and as director for international cyber policy on the National Security Council staff. While at the White House, Teddy coordinated U.S. policy efforts to counter nation-states cyber attacks, led efforts to provide cybersecurity support to Ukraine before Russia’s February 2022 further invasion, and advanced cyber and digital policy efforts at the United Nations. Before that, Teddy was senior advisor in the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues, where he led the development of the U.S. government’s policy on deterrence in cyberspace and established the U.S.-Ukraine Cyber Dialogue. 

Before entering government, Teddy was an associate at the Washington law firm of Steptoe and Johnson, and he clerked for the Honorable Sandra Lynch, chief judge of the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. Before becoming a lawyer, Teddy started a conflict resolution program at a non-governmental organization in South Africa (as a Princeton in Africa Fellow) and worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company in Boston. Teddy graduated from Princeton University in 2001, where he majored in Public and International Affairs and received certificates in East Asian and Chinese Cultural Studies.  He received his Juris Doctor in 2009 from Columbia Law School, where he was editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Teddy is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.