Head of Strategic Initiatives
Resilience
Kiran Sridhar is the Head of Strategic Initiatives for Resilience, a cyber insurance and cyber risk management company. He also serves on the investment team of Shield Capital, a venture capital firm that backs companies which solve both national security and commercial problem sets, and as the Chair of Waste No Food, a nonprofit that donates excess food to hungry people.
Kiran is the co-editor, along with Michael Boskin and John Rader, of Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak (Hoover Institution Press, 2023). His writing has also been featured in Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Cybersecurity, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Wall Street Journal, and National Review among other outlets.
Kiran received a BA in Economics from Stanford University; a master’s in global affairs from Tsinghua University, where he was a Schwarzman Scholar; and an MPhil in Operations Management from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.
