Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division, Department of Justice Adam Hickey will speak to law students; co-sponsored by The Stanford National Security & the Law Society (SNSLS).

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Speaker bio:
Adam S. Hickey is the Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Asset Protection in the National Security Division of the Department of Justice, where he manages NSD’s efforts to combat national security threats from computer intrusions and attacks, economic espionage, proliferation, and foreign investment.

From 2013 to 2015, Mr. Hickey was the Acting Deputy Chief for Cyber in the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section of NSD, where he supervised criminal investigations of foreign state-actors for malicious cyber activity affecting the private sector and critical infrastructure, including the unprecedented 2014 indictment of five Chinese military officers for computer hacking and economic espionage (United States v. Wang Dong); the indictment of seven Iranians for cyberattacks on the financial sector and unauthorized access to a SCADA system in 2012 and 2013; and the conviction of a Chinese aerospace engineer for conspiring with PLA hackers (United States v. Su Bin).

Throughout his time at NSD, Mr. Hickey has represented the Department on interagency policy committees concerning cybersecurity and counterterrorism and analyzed legal issues arising from the intelligence, counterintelligence, and national security activities of Government agencies.

Previously, Mr. Hickey was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, where he focused on national security cases involving terrorism and international drug and arms trafficking, and where he served as Deputy Chief of Appeals. He has been awarded the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service and the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence, among other honors.

Prior to joining the Department of Justice in 2007, Mr. Hickey clerked for the Hon. Jed S. Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.) and the Hon. Robert A. Katzmann (2d Cir.) and practiced civil litigation and white collar defense at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in Manhattan. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School.