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Attorney and Former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Event planners seeking a speaker with unmatched experience in national security, leadership, and crisis management will find exceptional value in Christopher Wray. As former FBI Director and a veteran of the Department of Justice, he offers rare insights into safeguarding organizations, navigating complex threats, and leading with integrity under pressure. His presentations bring clarity, credibility, and real-world expertise to audiences across sectors.
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Drawing on decades of high-stakes leadership—from overseeing the FBI to managing some of the nation’s most sensitive investigations—Christopher Wray offers a compelling look at what effective leadership requires in moments of pressure, scrutiny, and uncertainty. He shares hard-earned insights from developing and leading high-performing teams through national crises, organizational change, and intense public scrutiny, drawing on experience in both government and the private sector. Wray’s perspective gives audiences a grounded, insider understanding of how to lead with clarity, integrity, and purpose—while building teams capable of performing at their best when the stakes are highest.
Audience Takeaways:
As former FBI Director and one of the nation’s foremost voices on homeland security, Christopher Wray delivers a powerful, eye-opening look at why cyber attacks represent one of the most consequential threats facing the United States. Drawing on his leadership of the FBI’s counterintelligence and cyber divisions—and insights he shared on 60 Minutes—Wray explains how a wide range of cyber threats now converge, from nation-state espionage and intellectual-property theft to ransomware attacks that can cripple hospitals, pipelines, and businesses overnight. Beyond focusing simply on technical fixes, he helps audiences understand why these attacks matter, what is truly at stake for national and economic security, and why cyber risk now affects every sector of society.
Audience Takeaways:
In an era of rapid change, digital disruption, and growing competitive pressure, Christopher Wray offers organizations a high-level, strategic look at how to protect the ideas, capabilities, and culture that make them innovative. Drawing on decades leading teams through complex challenges at the FBI and Department of Justice, Wray explains how organizations can stay resilient amid transformation, anticipate risks that threaten long-term growth, and build a mindset that safeguards their mission while adapting to new realities. Speaking to companies, universities, nonprofits, and public-sector institutions alike, he highlights why protecting your “innovative edge” is as much about leadership, clarity, and culture as it is about technology.
Audience Takeaways:
From his years leading the FBI and overseeing international investigations, Christopher Wray offers a rare, inside look at how global events shape U.S. security in ways most people never see. He explains why threats that originate overseas—whether terrorism, cyber intrusions, foreign intelligence operations, or geopolitical instability—have a direct and immediate impact on American communities, businesses, and institutions. Through his unique lens, Wray helps audiences understand why staying attuned to global dynamics is essential for safeguarding the nation at home.
Audience Takeaways:
Christopher Wray became the eighth Director of the FBI on August 2, 2017. He led the Bureau’s 38,000 men and women around the globe for nearly eight years, until he retired in January 2025. Under his leadership, the FBI confronted dangerous and complex threats from a relentless array of adversaries with an emphasis on people, partnerships, process, and innovation. Wray’s focus on partnerships brought about collective success for law enforcement across the world and a paradigm shift in FBI engagement with the private sector. As the landscape evolved, Wray implemented a new cyber strategy for the FBI, leveraging joint, sequenced operations with partners across the intelligence community at home and abroad and cutting-edge technology to stay ahead of the threats. Throughout his time with the FBI, Wray prioritized a fierce commitment to the rule of law and ensuring the FBI’s men and women were best prepared to tackle threats for generations to come.
Wray began his career in public service in 1997, serving in the Department of Justice as an assistant U.S. attorney in Atlanta and prosecuting a wide variety of federal criminal cases. In 2001, Wray was appointed associate deputy attorney general, and then principal associate deputy attorney general, in Washington, D.C., with responsibilities spanning the full Department. He played an integral role in the U.S. response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Wray was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2003 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division, overseeing major national and international criminal investigations and prosecutions. At the conclusion of his tenure, Wray was awarded the Edmund J. Randolph Award, the Department’s highest award for leadership and public service, an honor that he received again 20 years later as FBI Director.
Between stints in public service, Wray spent almost 17 years at the international law firm of King & Spalding LLP, representing companies in government investigations. At the time of his nomination to be FBI Director, Wray chaired the firm’s special matters and government investigations practice group and had served multiple terms on the firm’s governing policy committee. He also helped found the Lead Director Network, a select group of lead directors, presiding directors, and non-executive chairs of Fortune 500 companies committed to improving the performance of their corporations and earning the trust of their shareholders through more effective board leadership. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and earned his law degree from Yale Law School. He is currently a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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