Susan Landau

Susan Landau, born in 1954, is an American mathematician, engineer and cybersecurity policy expert. She is Bridge professor in cybersecurity and policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a post that places her at the meeting point of technical security and public policy. She previously worked as a senior staff privacy analyst at Google, which gave her a view of privacy questions from inside a large technology company as well as from the academy. She was a Guggenheim fellow and a visiting scholar in the Computer Science Department at Harvard University in 2012. Her infobox lists engineering, cybersecurity and cryptography as her fields, and gives New York City as her place of birth.