I am responsible for the research organization, infrastructure and doctoral training, institutional transformation, and capacity building at Riga Stradiņš University.
Before joining the university, I was a deputy state secretary and director of the Higher Education, Science and Innovation Department at the Ministry of Education and Science of Latvia. There, I designed and implemented structural reforms of the research and innovation system.
As a Senior Cybersecurity Consultant at Ernst & Young, I help Fortune 500 organizations protect their most critical assets by embedding security into their system designs and operations. I lead secure-by-design initiatives and application security strategies for companies across a wide range of industries.
As an appellate criminal defense attorney, I help my clients challenge their convictions in state and federal court. In practice, that is a lot of reading case law, writing motions and briefs, and presenting oral arguments before appellate courts.
Grace Fletcher graduated from Georgia Tech in 2021 degrees in Public Policy and Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies. Since then, she has begun a career in the public sector, working in solar energy in Massachusetts.
Andy McNeil started off as a mechanical engineering major at Georgia Tech due to his fascination with cars. However, he struggled to make the grades he wanted and couldn’t find a fulfilling internship, so he decided to switch majors. He was taking a prelaw overview course at the time — offered by the School of Public Policy — and greatly enjoying it.
I am finishing up my last semester of law school at New York University! I was always pretty sure that I wanted to go to law school, and my time at Georgia Tech helped me solidify this.
I get to learn about all types of law, some of which I did not know existed before I came to school. I have gotten to take a variety of classes on topics including domestic violence, trusts and estates, digital currency, and fashion law.
I am currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area working at CyberCube, which provides cyber risk analytics for the insurance industry. I get to spend my time thinking about potential cyber catastrophe scenarios, who the threat actors would be, what kind of infrastructure may be targeted and why, and how the impacts could cascade across industries.
