Anne Neuberger is an American national security official who served as the deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology in the Biden administration from 2021 until January 2025. Prior to that role, she served for over a decade at the NSA, as director of cybersecurity, as assistant deputy director of operations, and as the agency’s first chief risk officer. Neuberger joined the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2009 where she held key leadership positions such as leading NSA’s cybersecurity mission, including emerging technology areas like quantum-resistant cryptography. She co-led NSA and USCC’s election security effort and led NSA’s intelligence operations, leading an organization of over 20,000 people globally. Neuberger also served as Director of NSA’s Commercial Solutions Center and served as NSA’s first Chief Risk Officer, building NSA’s enterprise risk management program.

She joined the federal government as a White House fellow, working at the Pentagon, and subsequently served as deputy chief management officer of the Navy, before joining NSA. Before entering government service, Neuberger was senior vice president of operations at American Stock Transfer & Trust Company.

Neuberger grew up in the Hasidic community of Boro Park in Brooklyn, New York. In 1997, she received a BA from Lander College for Women of Touro College. In 2005, she graduated from Columbia University with an MBA and master of international affairs (MIA) in operations management, international affairs, security policy. Neuberger’s grandparents are Holocaust survivors, and 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.