Thomas Lind

Thomas Lind is a Senior Advisor at the White House Office of the National Cyber Director, where he leads policy across the office's full portfolio with an emphasis on national security and China. He previously served as ONCD's Senior Director for Intelligence and, before joining the White House, held multiple leadership positions at the National Security Agency specializing in China cyber operations and counterintelligence. He is also a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve and has prior experience in the private sector at BlueVoyant and as a Cybersecurity Fellow at Columbia University's Saltzman Institute. He is best known as one of the most technically savvy senior policy officials at ONCD, having helped craft the Trump administration's AI executive order on fortifying networks against hacking risks posed by frontier AI models.