Brian Katz

Brian Katz is a Sloan Fellow and MSx candidate at the Stanford GSB. He is currently Head of Partnerships for Intelligence and Security at the Defense Innovation Unit (in his Navy Reserve capacity) and adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Prior to Stanford, Brian served as a senior policy advisor to the Under Secretaries of Defense for Intelligence & Security (2021-22) and for Research & Engineering (2023). He previously was a CSIS Fellow and executive director of the CSIS Technology and Intelligence Task Force, and served for a decade at the CIA in a variety of analytic and operational roles worldwide. Brian holds degrees from Duke University and Johns Hopkins SAIS