Philip Stupak

Philip Stupak is a political appointee in the Biden Administration where he serves as the Assistant National Cyber Director for Government Partnerships in the Office of the National Cyber Director at the White House. He has coordination responsibilities for international, federal, and state, local, tribal, and territorial cybersecurity policy implementation. This includes implementing zero trust architecture, phishing resistant multifactor authentication, logging requirements, encryption of data in transit and at rest, and post-quantum cryptography adoption.

Mr. Stupak initially joined the Biden Administration at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where he was dual-hatted as a counselor to the Deputy Secretary and a Senior Advisor to the Chief Information Officer. In those roles, he led the Operation Allies Welcome / Operation Allies Refuge interagency technology working group enabling Afghan refugee resettlement, directed a new model of operational coordination, and began a reformation of the Department’s R&D activities.Prior to joining the Biden Administration, Mr. Stupak was the Associate Director at the University of Chicago’s Harris Cyber Policy Initiative where he focused on disinformation campaigns, election security, and AI policy while teaching cyber risk management within the University of Chicago’s Treat Response Management graduate program. Mr. Stupak previously served in the Obama Administration at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and as an election counsel at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration. He began his legal career with the Board of Elections at the City of New York.

Mr. Stupak has a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and a JD from the University of Richmond.