Elsa B. Kania is an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. Her research focuses on China’s military strategy, defense innovation, and emerging technologies. Kania is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard University's Department of Government. Her book, Fighting to Innovate, is forthcoming with the Naval Institute Press in 2022.
Kania was a 2018 Fulbright Specialist with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s International Cyber Policy Centre and has been named an official “Mad Scientist” by the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command. She is a graduate of Harvard College and was a Boren Scholar in Beijing, China.
