Anne Neuberger

Anne Neuberger (born 1976) is the head of the United States National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Directorate. She is the highest-ranking woman in the NSA and the first Orthodox Jewish woman to be posted in the office. Before this position, she worked on NSA’s election security work leading up to and during the 2018 midterms and served as the NSA’s first chief risk officer. She was a White House Fellow, where she was positioned at the Pentagon. She has also worked with the Secretary of the Navy and Cyber Command. Her grandparents are Holocaust survivors. Her parents were among the passengers on the hijacked Air France flight in 1976, rescued by Israeli commandos in Operation Thunderbolt from Uganda’s Entebbe Airport. Neuberger is also the founder of Sister to Sister, a nonprofit to help divorced Jewish moms.