Kristin Wood

During her 20-year CIA career, Ms. Wood served in the Director’s area and three Agency directorates – analysis, operations, and digital innovation – leading a wide variety of the Agency’s missions in analysis and operations. Ms. Wood served most recently as Deputy Chief of the Innovation & Technology Group at the Open Source Center (OSC). She led OSC’s open-source IT and innovation efforts to extract meaning from big data by guiding multi-disciplinary teams of analysts, data scientists, data management officers, engineers, programmers, developers and researchers in creating tools, methodologies, and infrastructure for the future. Ms. Wood is an expert contributor to The Cipher Brief.