Timothy H. Edgar teaches courses in cybersecurity and digital privacy at Brown University, where he is a Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, and Harvard Law School, where he is a Lecturer on Law.  Tim helped start Brown’s Online Master’s in Cybersecurity Program, launched in 2020, which integrates the technology, law and policy aspects of this growing field.  He is also a Senior Fellow at Brown’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and is the author of Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the NSA.  Prior to his academic career, Tim served as the first-ever privacy and civil liberties official in the White House National Security Staff under President Barack Obama, and as a privacy official in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under President George W. Bush.  From 2001 to 2006, Tim was a legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  He served as a law clerk to Judge Sandra Lynch of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Dartmouth College.