Lauren Bedula

Lauren Bedula is a managing director at Beacon Global Strategies and leads the firm’s National Security Technology Practice, focused on strengthening partnerships between the high-tech sector and national security communities. Ms. Bedula is co-host with the Honorable James “Hondo” Geurts of the “Building the Base” podcast, which explores the evolving national security threat landscape and need for the defense industrial base to adapt. Ms. Bedula currently serves as a Director on the Business Executives for National Security (BENS) Board of Directors, as Vice Chair of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group Board of Directors, and on the Board of the Silicon Valley Defense Group. She is a senior fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and serves on the Stimson Center’s Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council. Prior to joining Beacon, Ms. Bedula served as the Director for Policy, Emerging Threats at BENS. Previously, Ms. Bedula worked as a research analyst for a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. She also previously worked as a research associate for the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Ms. Bedula previously served on the Board of Directors for the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy and as a fellow at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. Ms. Bedula graduated from American University with a double major in public communication and interdisciplinary studies in communications, legal institutions, economics, and government.