Laura Thomas is the Chief Strategy Officer at Fuse, a fusion energy company building toward a clean and near-limitless energy source. On its path to fusion, Fuse is providing access to pulsed power machines that serve skyrocketing radiation testing demands of U.S. national security and commercial space & energy customers.

Prior to Fuse, Laura was the Chief of Staff at quantum technology company Infleqtion where she remains an advisor. For most of her career she served as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and Chief of Base. She built and led sensitive programs at CIA Headquarters and abroad in multiple international assignments including high-risk and high-ambiguity environments focused on major U.S. adversaries.

Laura has worked with partners across the U.S. Intelligence Community, National Security Council, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, NASA, Congress, and with foreign governments and investors.

She speaks at university, government agency, investor, and tech industry events on leadership, national security, and deeptech.

In addition to NSI, Laura is an alumna of the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Tech Policy Hub, an advisor to the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University, and a member of the International Republican Institute’s Women’s Democracy Network Advisory Council. She currently writes at https://www.lauraethomas.com.

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