CGA Team
Morgan Ryan, CSO
Morgan Ryan is the Chief Strategy Officer at Cambridge Global Advisors. In this role she develops, manages, and executes CGA’s business development strategy among U.S. commercial and federal government clients, leads strategic planning, identifies and pursues key growth opportunities, fosters relationships with partners external to CGA, and oversees client projects in our domestic portfolio.
Prior to CGA, Morgan served as Senior Counselor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). There she advised the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) issues, with particular focus on the synthesis and smuggling of fentanyl into the U.S, working closely with interagency partners, the White House, and counterparts in Mexico. In this role she facilitated the development of the first DHS counter fentanyl smuggling plan. Morgan also supported the effort to stand up an unprecedented DHS-led interagency counter human smuggling effort, regularly briefing the National Security Council on key milestones. Additionally, Morgan provided subject matter expertise on border, immigration, and cybersecurity issues. She also directly supported the Secretary’s Infrastructure Transformation priorities to include enhanced research & development, expanded cyber hiring, and development of a reserve workforce. Morgan also worked to develop a DHS Indo-Pacific engagement strategy focused largely on enhancing cyber capacity in the region. She managed key facilitation aspects of the effort to resettle Afghan refugees as part of Operation Allies Welcome and coordinated the Deputy Secretary's academic engagement with DHS Centers of Excellence and other leading research institutions across the country.
Prior to DHS, Morgan served as CGA’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) where she worked on national security issues, in both the public and private sectors, with a focus on cyber and homeland security. In this role she also worked very closely with law enforcement leaders across the country on national security and immigration issues, regularly holding regular high-profile meetings with DHS and the White House.
Morgan serves as a mentor for the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and is a member of the Chicago chapter of the Network of Arab American Professionals (NAAP). Morgan is an alumna of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she obtained dual Bachelor’s degrees in international studies and Spanish, as well as Loyola University of Chicago where she earned a Master's in International and Comparative Politics. She is fluent in Spanish.