Vishnu Kannan

Vishnu Kannan is special assistant to the president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he supports the president’s research agenda.
 
His own research and writing focuses on technology competition, cyber policy, and the legal dimensions of U.S. national security policy. At Carnegie he helped lead the Technology and International Affairs Program’s work on cloud computing and governance and supported research at Carnegie’s Partnership for Countering Influence Operations. His writing has appeared in Lawfare and been featured in The New Yorker.
 
Prior to joining Carnegie as a Junior Fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program, he was a researcher at Lawfare and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He holds a B.A. from Michigan State University, where he studied International Relations, Political Theory, and Economics.