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Dr. Kelly Seagraves is a Senior Advisor in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology, where she leads the coordination of biotechnology policy across the State Department. Her mission is to promote the responsible development and use of emerging biotechnologies, by facilitating international cooperation that supports the U.S. and global bioeconomies and protecting against misuse of technologies where necessary. Prior to this role she was a global emerging technologies analyst, also at the U.S. Department of State, where her portfolio included advanced computing, artificial intelligence, quantum information sciences, and biotechnologies. Dr. Seagraves transitioned to the Department of State after spending a decade as an academic neuroscientist. Her laboratory research focused on how the brain controls social interactions. Most recently, she was a CV Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and prior to that, she received her B.A. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her PhD in Zoology from the University of Cambridge.