Lyndsay Howard

Lyndsay grew up in Columbus, Ohio, graduated from Vassar, and studied international relations, history and defense policy at Sciences Po and the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva. She spent over a decade as a member of the U.S. intelligence community. In that role, she worked in Europe and was assigned to American embassies in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan—tracing Islamic terrorist activities across Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Moving to the private sector, Lyndsay served as a top advisor to global investors and technology companies, the UK House of Lords, and Henry Kissinger. Since 2016, she has served as a senior foreign policy advisor to Mike Bloomberg and Bloomberg LP.