Zhanna Malekos-Smith, JD

Zhanna L. Malekos Smith, JD, is a professor for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, adjunct faculty for New York University's Center for Global Affairs, and senior associate with the Aerospace Security Project and Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. She is also a non-resident fellow at the UN Institute for Disarmament Research and the Army Cyber Institute at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Previously, she was an assistant professor in the Systems Engineering Department at West Point and a professor of cyber warfare studies with the U.S. Air War College. Zhanna has appeared on CNN, NBC, and BBC, and her commentary has appeared in POLITICO, Nature, Physics Today, and elsewhere. A former captain and attorney in the Air Force’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, she received her commission from MIT’s ROTC program, where she was a cross-registered student and participated in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. She holds a BA in Russian and international relations from Wellesley College, an MA and associateship of King’s College from King’s College London, and a JD from the University of California, Davis. Zhanna has held fellowships with the Madeleine K. Albright Institute for Global Affairs, the Belfer Center’s Cyber Security Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, Duke University Law School, Stanford University’s U.S.-Russia Forum, and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. She is also a volunteer consultant for Hostage US.