Simin Kargar

Simin Kargar is a PhD candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Her research centers on the synergies between the public and private sectors on cybersecurity and counterintelligence. Kargar is also a Senior Non-resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), where she focuses on information warfare in the Middle East and the policy responses that it calls for. Over the past decade, Kargar has worked with a variety of public and private stakeholders on the interrelations of cybersecurity and geopolitics in repressive environments.