Taiwan Lecture by Dmitri Alperovitch

Description

Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and executive chair of Silverado Policy Accelerator and author of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century, will give a lecture on Taiwan and the future of Sino-American relations. This event is hosted by the Alperovitch Institute at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

Doors open at 4:30 p.m. The event is open to the public and to members of the press.

About Dmitri Alperovitch

Dmitri Alperovitch is the co-founder and chair of Silverado Policy Accelerator, a nonprofit focused on advancing American prosperity and global leadership in the 21st century and beyond. He is a co-founder and former chief technology officer of CrowdStrike Inc., a leading cybersecurity company. A renowned cybersecurity visionary, business executive, and thought leader on geopolitics, great power competition and cybersecurity strategy, Alperovitch has served as special adviser to the Department of Defense and currently serves on the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Cyber Safety Review Board. His writing on geopolitics, foreign policy and cybersecurity issues has appeared in major news outlets including The New York Times, the Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs, and he is a regular contributor to national broadcast news programs including PBS Newshour and NBC News. Alperovitch is also an active angel investor and board member of multiple high-growth technology companies. He has been named as one of Fortune Magazine's "40 Under 40" most influential young people in business, and Politico magazine has featured Alperovitch as one of "Politico 50" influential thinkers, doers, and visionaries transforming American politics. In 2013, Alperovitch received the prestigious recognition of being selected as MIT Technology Review's "Young Innovators under 35" (TR35) and Foreign Policy's Leading Global Thinkers, and he was named a "D.C. Tech Titan" and one of the 500 most influential people in Washington by Washingtonian magazine in 2022 and 2023. In 2021, he launched the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He is the host and creator of Silverado's popular "Geopolitics Decanted" podcast, dedicated to expert analysis of the war in Ukraine as well as broader issues related to industrial policy, semiconductors, cybersecurity, and economic and ecological security. Dmitri also received the Outstanding Americans by Choice recognition in 2023, presented by Alejandro N. Mayorkas, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, for his outstanding achievement as a naturalized U.S. citizen through civic participation, professional achievement, and responsible citizenship.