Meg Reiss

Dr. Meg Reiss is the founder and CEO of SolidIntel, the firstdual-use generative AI company building a supply chain intelligence platform touncover hidden adversarial risks in global supply chains. Meg is a nonresidentsenior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center, a visiting fellow atGeorge Mason’s National Security Institute, and a board member for theFoundation for American Innovation.

She previously served as national security policy advisor toU.S. Senator Mitt Romney while he served as Ranking Member of the SenateForeign Relations Asia Subcommittee and Chair of the Middle East Subcommittee.In that role, she oversaw his defense, foreign policy, and intelligenceportfolios and advanced the office’s priorities through the annual NationalDefense Authorization Act (NDAA). Meg worked on Senator Romney's legislationestablishing a presidential drawdown authority for Taiwan, mandating a whole-of-governmentstrategy toward China, strengthening U.S. critical minerals supply chains,preventing Huawei’s removal from the Entity List, clarifying defensiveuse-of-force authorities against Iran, and directing the Department of Defenseto benchmark U.S. capabilities against China and Russia. She also organizedhearings on U.S. policy toward Taiwan, Iraq, Syria, and freedom of expressionin Asia; led efforts to close Confucius Institutes in Utah; coordinatedevacuations during COVID and the Afghanistan withdrawal; supported surgingmilitary aid to Ukraine; and worked with the State Department on hostage andpolitical prisoner cases abroad.

Meg began her career working on Asia use-of-force policy forSecretary George Shultz’s Stanford Preventive Force Group at the HooverInstitution. She later served as a Senior National Security Fellow for SenatorBen Sasse, helping staff the Senator on the Senate Armed Services Committeeduring Senator McCain’s tenure as chairman. She was also a Senior Editor atLawfare focused on sanctions and cyber policy, a Senior National SecurityFellow at the R Street Institute, and an International Strategy Fellow for EricSchmidt’s International Strategy Forum.

A South Dakota native, she holds a bachelor’s degree fromStanford University, an LL.M. from the University of Nottingham School of Law,and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, where her dissertationfocused on nuclear policy. 

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