About Speaker

Kelly Murray is the executive director and co-founder of the Center for Cross-Sector Coordination (CXC), a not-for-profit initiative focusing on promoting cross-sector collaboration and information sharing, private-public discussion and cross-sector security and resilience solutions for critical infrastructure owners and operators. CXC serves as a trusted network and forum for true expert coordination—and as a force multiplier for government sector risk management agencies and information sharing initiatives. Murray is also the president and founder of resilience and risk solutions, which provides expert strategic policy, legislative approach, organizational development, risk analysis, vulnerability assessment, emergency management and program development for critical infrastructure and government partners, driving impactful change and increased national and economic security and resilience.

Previously, Murray was the associate director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Office of Chemical Security within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where she led the Office of Chemical Security in identifying, regulating and managing infrastructure security risk. Murray served as a technical authority on critical infrastructure and chemical security with expertise in risk-based and performance-based security measures to best assist critical infrastructure owners and operators and communities across the nation both understand and address their security risk. Further, she was a co-implementer of the Global Congress on Chemical Security and Emerging Threats, an international group of more than 1,000 experts from 110 countries, established to build capacity worldwide, enable technology innovation, address emerging threats like artificial intelligence and drones and influence global security strategies for critical infrastructure.