Elsa B Kania is an adjunct senior fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, a non-resident fellow with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and a research fellow with the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Elsa’s analytic interests include Chinese military modernisation, information warfare, and defence science and technology. She is a frequent commentator in global media, and has testified before U.S. congressional commissions and committees. Elsa has also been named an official ‘Mad Scientist’ by the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command.