Chris Hoofnalge
Chris Jay Hoofnagle teaches torts, cybersecurity, consumer protection, python programming, and seminars on new technologies. He is an affiliated faculty member of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, and the Center for Security in Politics. Hoofnagle is the author of cybersecurity textbook Cybersecurity in Context (with Golden Richard III, Wiley 2024). He is also the author of Law and Policy for the Quantum Age (with Simson Garfinkel, Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Hoofnagle is of counsel to Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, and an elected member of the American Law Institute. In Spring 2024, Hoofnagle was Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.
Jeff Fields
Jeff Fields is a newly retired FBI leader, most recently Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Branch in San Francisco, with 20 years spanning national security and the defense industrial base. Now advising VCs, startups, and universities across deep-tech and dual-use ventures, he brings a rare operator’s perspective on how adversaries move and how builders can design security that supports speed instead of fighting it. At UC Berkeley, Jeff is a Senior Fellow of Practice at the Berkeley Institute for Security and Governance, where he teaches Hacking for Defense and co-founded Mission Applied @ Berkeley, connecting university research to national security missions. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking with his two Belgian Malinois, exploring the Pacific coast on his motorcycle, and taking in the occasional opera or hip-hop show.
Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano is the Founder of the Center for Security in Politics at UC Berkeley. Napolitano currently serves as a professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. A distinguished public servant, Napolitano served as the president of the University of California from 2013 to 2020, as the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013, as Governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009, as Attorney General of Arizona from 1998 to 2003, and as U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona from 1993 to 1997. She earned her B.S. degree (summa cum laude in Political Science) in 1979 from Santa Clara University, where she was a Truman Scholar and the university’s first female valedictorian. She received her law degree in 1983 from the University of Virginia School of Law.