Dr. Karen Guttieri

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

She taught at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey 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 West Point. She loves living near family in Brooklyn—although they are faster at Wordle than she is—and enjoys adventures with her dog in the Enchanted Forest near her home in a village on the Hudson River. She maintains strong ties with family, friends, and colleagues in Northern California. She is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford and an honorary member of the Civil Affairs Regiment.