Gil Baram, PhD
Non-Resident Research Fellow
Email: gilbaram@berkeley.edu
Dr. Gil Baram is a cyber strategy and policy expert with more than 15 years of experience leading innovative research, lecturing and consulting senior business leaders and government officials.
Her research interests encompass various aspects of emerging technologies, security, and society. Her most recent project dives into the connections between AI and cybercrime, and how AI is affecting cyber threats and techniques. Her broader research agenda includes public attribution of cyber intrusions and international norms and practices, public disclosure of cyberattacks, the role of intelligence agencies in cyber operations, cyber threats to space systems, and more.
Gil holds fellow positions with the Centre of Excellence for National Security at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at Tel Aviv University.
She was a Fulbright cybersecurity post-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. She also served as head of cyber and space research at the Israeli think tank Yuval Ne’eman workshop for Science, Technology and Security. In this capacity, she led and guided a wide range of specialized cyber, space, AI, and national security projects within various government agencies, including the National Cyber Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defence, and more.
Previously, she held cyber intelligence positions within Israel’s National Information Security Authority.
Selected Publications:
- Baram, Gil. “Cyber Diplomacy through Official Public Attribution: Paving the Way for Global Norms.” International Studies Perspectives (2024). https://academic.oup.com/isp/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/isp/ekae022/7903056
- Baram, Gil. “The Pall Mall Process could be a catalyst for international collaboration on commercial cyber intrusion capabilities,” The Binding Hook, March 2024. https://bindinghook.com/articles-hooked-on-trends/the-pall-mall-process-could-be-a-catalyst-for-international-collaboration-on-commercial-cyber-intrusion-capabilities/
- Baram, Gil. “Public Secrets: The Dynamics of Publicity and Secrecy in Offensive Cyber Operations.” Journal of Global Security Studies 8, no. 3 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogad013
- Baram, Gil. “A sliding scale of secrecy: toward a better understanding of the role of publicity in offensive cyber operations.” Journal of Cyber Policy 7, no. 3 (2022): 275-293. https://doi.org/10.1080/23738871.2023.2184708
