Timothy H. Edgar is the Academic Director for Law and Policy for the Executive Master in Cybersecurity at Brown University, and is a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute. He served under President Obama from 2009 to 2010 as the first director of privacy and civil liberties for the White House National Security Staff in its Cybersecurity Directorate. From 2006 to 2009, he was the first deputy for civil liberties for the director of national intelligence, reviewing new surveillance authorities, the terrorist watchlist, and other sensitive programs. From 2010 to 2012, he was counsel for the information sharing environment, which facilitates the secure sharing of terrorism-related information.