William Carter is the Deputy Director of the Technology Policy Program at CSIS. His work focuses on international cyber and technology policy issues, including data localization, surveillance and privacy, cyber conflict and deterrence, financial sector cybersecurity, and law enforcement and technology, including encryption. He has spoken at events and conferences around the world, including leading a table-top exercise on cyber-financial crises for the ASEAN regional forum in Singapore in 2015, and he has participated in multiple Track 2 dialogues on cyber and technology policy issues. Before joining CSIS, he worked in the Investment Strategy Group at Goldman Sachs. In this role, he performed research and analysis on geopolitics and the macro economy, and produced reports and presentations on international affairs and current events and their impact on markets. He previously worked at the Council on Foreign Relations and at Caxton Associates, a New York hedge fund. He graduated from New York University with a B.A. in economics.