Lyla Kohistany - a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Forward defense program. She is also an inclusion strategist and cultural intelligence advisor. She also consults for US Special Operations Command as a senior cultural advisor, and is the president and co-founder of Promote, a nonprofit initiative focused on inclusive mentorship and leadership development in the national security sector. She has worked as a counterterrorism analyst in Afghanistan and a US Navy surface warfare officer.