Sarah Campbell

Ms. Sarah P. Campbell is the Strategic Partnerships & Communications Lead at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), Research directorate. As a senior leader, Sarah manages and oversees all efforts related to strategic communications, outreach, legislative affairs, and international affairs on behalf of NGA Research. Before this appointment, Ms. Campbell was a Senior Program Manager for SAIC, providing strategic support to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OSD USD R&E). In this role she helped support and execute legislative and congressional affairs and public affairs long range strategic plans across the newly established Research and Engineering enterprise. Specifically, Ms. Campbell worked closely with the Director for Strategic Technology Protection and Exploitation to help influence U.S. strategic competition to maintain technology leadership and advantage. Ms. Campbell also served as lead for the Office of International Cooperation at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 2012-2017. At DARPA she helped to execute the agency’s international cooperation engagement in areas of interest, as well as assist and advise on critical bilateral and multilateral relationships and agreements with foreign partners across the globe.

Ms. Campbell also supported the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in various capacities to include the Research and Development Enterprise, Office of International Cooperation, where she helped lead the first DoD S&T bilateral workshop and Chemical/Biological project agreement with India in 2010. She began her career as a public policy analyst with Austin-based geopolitical publishing firm, Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor), where she helped communicate and advise Fortune 500 companies on public policy and geopolitical risk. Ms. Campbell received her Bachelors in Political Science from the University of Mary Washington, and her Master’s Degree in International Commerce & Policy from George Mason University, Schar School of Policy & Government. Ms. Campbell is a Visiting Principal Faculty member at the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security at the University of Maryland, College Park and a 2015 AILA Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC.