Jen Easterly is an American intelligence officer and former military official who served as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Biden administration.

[2][3] The daughter of an enlisted Vietnam War veteran,[4] Easterly was raised in Potomac, Maryland and attended Winston Churchill High School and graduated as valedictorian in 1986.

She earned a bachelor's degree from the United States Military Academy in 1990 and a Master of Arts in politics, philosophy, and economics from Pembroke College, Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

[20] As director, Easterly argued that U.S. intelligence sharing efforts with Ukrainian government officials ahead of the 2022 Russian invasion should be a model for combating China-based hacking groups.

[21] In 2023, Easterly stated that potential cybersecurity threats posed by artificial intelligence (AI) development meant that the government should implement systemic safeguards.