The Speakers

Dr. David An is currently a cybersecurity manager within management consulting while continuing his academic endeavors. Within management consulting, David has spent the past four years leading the strategic branch of cybersecurity team—geopolitical team, technical operational team, and indicators of compromise collection team. He also leads due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, and regularly briefs C-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies. In academia, David continues to speak and present research papers at academic conferences and speak at universities. He is authoring a forthcoming book on ransomware cyber threat actors. David received his Ph.D. from the Politics Department at The Catholic University of America.

Dr. Teng Margaret Fu is a Senior Manager, IT and Security Audit at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the largest private health plan in the state. Margaret joined Blue Cross about a year ago, bringing more than a decade of well-rounded experience with leadership positions in IT and business audit, risk and control functions in financial and professional services including PwC, Arrowstreet Capital, and most recently, Silicon Valley Bank. She leads the development of the audit automation strategy and oversees the execution of risk-based IT and Security audits, consulting engagements and operational readiness assessments for new systems, or changes to existing systems.

She started her career in non-profit organizations promoting international relations, addressing collective action issues, including an internship at Department of Political Affairs, United Nations. She also adjunct taught undergraduate courses at Semester at Sea program (then affiliated with University of Virginia), Boston College, and Boston University. She has published articles and book chapters on the governance of social issues. 

Previously, she was on the board of a Cambridge-based local community organization called Transition House, the 2nd domestic violence shelter in the entire country (2014-2018). Margaret earned her B.A in English and Diplomacy from China Foreign Affairs University, her M.S. in Accountancy from Bentley University, and her Ph.D. in International Affairs from The Catholic University of America. She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

David Moore is the managing partner of Dave Moore Law, LLC., an entrepreneur, an adjunct professor and a licensed patent attorney. Mr. Moore started his first business over 30 years ago, sold his first business 25 years ago and has been practicing law since 2006. As an attorney, Mr. Moore concentrates on ethics, intellectual property and international law. His work is a combination of litigation, creation of intellectual property rights, development of licensing rights, legal scholarship and opinions of counsel.

Mr. Moore grew up in Florida and enjoys fishing, talking sports, reading, watching movies and traveling in his free time. He has lived in Tokyo, New York City and Washington, DC. Prior to entering the legal field, Mr. Moore served as the Chief Technical Officer for Array Services, Inc. and as a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where his research was focused on cybersecurity.

After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history at The Catholic University of America, Rob converted experiences as an editor on the Tower and database skills developed in Dr. Larry Poos’s quantitative history course (at CUA) into an editorial job at the American Historical Association. Over the next 24 years, he edited the AHA’s magazine (Perspectives on History), built the organization’s online presence, and wrote dozens of articles about various aspects of the history discipline. Realizing that he needed a doctoral degree to advance in an academic-adjacent organization, he returned to graduate studies in 2001 and finished a PhD in 2009 at George Mason University. In 2013, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences recruited him to manage their Washington, D.C. office and develop the Humanities Indicators initiative (www.humanitiesindicators.org), which reports on the health of the field from a historical and social scientific perspective. In 2020, he was promoted to direct all humanities, arts, and culture programs at the Academy, including a recent commission on the value of the arts and a new project on cultural institutions and their communities. 

Dr. Russell Wyland joined the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 1990. In early 2024, Chair Shelly Lowe (Navajo) appointed Russ to his current position as the inaugural Director of the NEH Office of Outreach. In that capacity, he leads the agency’s efforts to expand access to historically underserved institutions and communities. Russ is the principal author of “Research Fellowships: An Evaluation of 2002-2004 Awards” (GPO, 2012), and he has worked closely with NEH partners, including the Library of Congress, National Science Foundation, Japan-US Friendship Commission, the Mellon Foundation, and the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities. Russ received his BA in English literature from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and MA and PhD in English literature from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His scholarship focuses on late Romantic and early Victorian literature, the history of classical rhetoric in England, and the development of the periodical press during the 19th century. He has published his work in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Rhetorica, and the Victorian Periodicals Review, and his research has been supported by the American Philosophical Society and the English-Speaking Union.