Lauren Bedula is a Managing Director at Beacon Global Strategies and leads the firm’s National Security Technology Practice. She also co-hosts the “Building the Base” podcast. Prior to joining Beacon, Ms. Bedula served as the Director for Policy, Emerging Threats at Business Executives for National Security (BENS). She also previously worked as a research analyst for a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and as a Research Associate for the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Ms. Bedula serves on the Board of Directors for BENS, as Vice Chair of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group Board of Directors, and on the Stimson Center’s Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council.