Andrea Matwyshyn is an academic and author whose work focuses on technology and innovation policy, particularly information security, consumer privacy, intellectual property, and technology workforce pipeline policy. She is a (tenured full) professor of law / professor of computer science (by courtesy) at Northeastern University, where she is the co-director of the Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity (CLIC). Andrea is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and a visiting research collaborator at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, where she was the Microsoft Visiting Professor of Information Technology Policy during 2014-15. She is a Senior Fellow of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security and a US-UK Fulbright Commission Cyber Security Scholar award recipient in 2016-2017. In 2014, she served as the Senior Policy Advisor/ Academic in Residence at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Prior to entering the academy, she was a corporate attorney in private practice.