Kimberly Lehn is the Senior Director at the Pacific Forum, in charge of the Honolulu Defense Forum (HDF). HDF seeks to facilitate dialogue and solutions between a wide range of actors from the private and public sectors to bolster deterrence in the face of an increasingly contested regional security environment.
She is a national security professional with over 20 years of experience in the U.S. federal government and in the private sector. She also advises leading companies on national security issues; and previously served in management and analytic roles at the Central Intelligence Agency as well as on assignments to the National Security Council, the Department of State, and on the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee. As a professional staff member, she focused on the national security challenges facing the United States.
She publishes regularly on national security, Indo-Pacific, and defense and technology issues. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis in Washington, DC.