Mr. Andy Keiser

Andy Keiser served for 14 years on Capitol Hill, including as Senior Advisor to the House Intelligence Committee and as Chief of Staff to its Chairman, former Congressman Mike Rogers from Michigan.

During his time in Congress, Mr. Keiser helped shepherd six Intelligence Authorization Acts into law authorizing funding and authorities for all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, and Chairman Rogers’ cyber threat sharing legislation, the core of which was later signed into law by President Barack Obama.

Mr. Keiser was also the head writer for a nationally syndicated radio program and assisted in the production of the CNN series Declassified. Dubbed a “national security expert” by The Washington Post, Mr. Keiser is a regular media commentator on national security and technology issues. His commentary has been featured by media outlets including Fox News Channel, News Nation, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Real Clear Defense, Breaking Defense, and The Hill.

Mr. Keiser has a Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University and a Master of Arts from the United States Naval War College. He is an active scholar at the National Security Institute (NSI) at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, where he serves as a Senior Fellow, Senior Contributor to The SCIF and Guest Lecturer, and at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC), where he serves as a Senior Fellow. He also is a member of the OSS Society.

Mr. Keiser is the author of a 2023 Foundation for American Leadership paper titled: Successful Semiconductor Industry Export Controls: The Importance of a Multilateral Efforts and co-author of a 2023 NSI paper titled: Restricting U.S. Outbound Investment to Targeted Chinese Sectors. He is the co-author of a 2021 CSPC paper titled: The Race for Semiconductor Supremacy: China Versus an Emerging Democratic Technology Alliance, the author of 2020 papers titled: The Race to 5G: Securing the Win and Securing the Key to the Future: Countering the Threat from State-Backed Chinese Semiconductor Companies, and the author of a 2019 NSI Law and Policy Paper titled: Chinese Telecommunications Companies Huawei and ZTE: Countering a Hostile Foreign Threat. He also has testified before the United States Congress on the subject of Huawei and ZTE’s threat to small business.

Mr. Keiser is currently a Senior Principal at Navigators Global where he serves on the Executive Committee and leads clients on national security, intelligence, and telecommunications, technology, transportation and supply chain security issues.