Dr. Barbara N. Stevens served in the Central Intelligence Agency for 35 years. As a former executive leader and manager, Stevens built and then directed complex data-science programs.

Since leaving government, Stevens has become the managing member of Nelson Analytic Consulting LLC as well as a member of the advisory board for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and for Babel Street. She also serves as a board member for Draper, Hexagon US Federal, and Moneycorp North America.

Stevens holds a doctorate from Florida State University in mathematical statistics and previously served on the faculty of the Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia.