Quantum Law National Institute

Artie McConnell

Artie McConnell is a partner in BakerHostetler’s global Litigation Practice Group and serves as the co-leader of the firm’s National Security Investigations and Litigation Task Force.  Artie represents companies and individuals involved in emerging and dual-use technologies – both in and out of the courtroom – in high-stakes enforcement actions, cross-border regulatory proceedings, internal investigations and compliance matters.  Before joining BakerHostetler, Artie served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York for ten years, where he was the Deputy Chief of the National Security and Cybercrime Section and head of the Disruptive Technology Strike Force, handling some of the Department of Justice’s most sensitive and complex sanctions, export controls and counterproliferation investigations.

Jonathan Cardenas

Jonathan Cardenas is a corporate associate with Baker & Hostetler in Washington, D.C.  His practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital transactions, and general corporate representation.  He serves as Chair of the Emerging Europe Private Equity & Venture Capital Taskforce of the American Bar Association Business Law Section.  He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, Florida and New York. 

Dan Berger

Dan Berger is a Partner at Green & Spiegel, U.S. leading the Academic and Medical Immigration Team. He is an Academic Fellow at Cornell Law School, and an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. He is on the Legal Advisory Board and the Board of Directors of the Presidents’ Alliance on Immigration & Higher Education, and also advises the Talent Mobility Fund on STEM immigration issues.

He is a frequent writer and speaker on immigration, including after the 2020 election for the Brookings Institute on recommendations for the Biden/Harris Administration and also on strategies to support international entrepreneurs. He co-edited an updated edition of Immigration Options for Academics and Researchers. He also wrote an Issue Brief for the American Council on Education (ACE) after the 2016 election, and was a co-author on a “Note” on academic immigration for the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA). Dan has been quoted in various media including the Atlantic Magazine, USA Today, Al Jazeera, Associated Press, Science, Bloomberg News, the Guardian, Forbes, and the Huffington Post.

Evangeline Williams

Evangeline Williams is an attorney, who serves as General Counsel to CJW Quantum Consulting, LLC. She has been a member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) since 2022 and currently serves as Co-Chair of the QED-C Law and Policy Technical Advisory Committee, where she contributes to developing legal and regulatory frameworks that advance the quantum ecosystem. When not serving in this role, she practices as a personal injury attorney at Wingfield, Ginsburg & Lipp, P.C. in Washington, D.C., where she represents clients with dedication and compassion. She holds an undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University in College Station and a JD/Master’s degree from Vermont Law and Graduate School (formerly Vermont Law School) in South Royalton, Vermont.

Kevin Wolf

Kevin Wolf is a partner in Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s international trade practice based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Wolf served for seven years (2010-2017) as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration in the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) at the Department of Commerce.   In this role, his primary responsibility was leading the administration of the export control and licensing functions of BIS.  He was also a Commerce Department representative to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).  He is also a Special Compliance Officer monitoring compliance with a State Department consent agreement.

Kelly McGannon

Kelly McGannon spent 20 years leading strategic analysis of emerging technologies for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Her work on AI, quantum, fusion, and US critical infrastructure resulted in multiple US Government policy changes, several US Presidential Executive Orders, two Congressional bills, and a House Committee on Homeland Security investigative report. Kelly also served two Presidents as the Senior Intelligence Officer on the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) staff, and often accompanied them overseas to lead the PDB’s advance team.

While at CIA, Kelly built a reputation for solving some of the Agency’s toughest operational and technological challenges, earning multiple awards for her innovative efforts and culture change successes, including the National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation award twice. Kelly has been a frequent speaker at NSA, FBI, NCTC, US Navy SEALs/Joint Expeditionary Base—Little Creek, the Pentagon, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Intelligence University, and throughout the national security community.

Before joining the Intelligence Community, she held several positions in academia. Kelly is a graduate of Saint Mary’s College of Notre Dame (BA), Yale University (MAR), and Princeton University (MA). Her academic work focused on how cultures leveraged art to shape society, and she traces similar patterns in the use of technology today. She is also a certified executive coach with more than a decade of experience helping emerging and established leaders, is certified in CPR (just in case!), and loves sailing worldwide (most recently, French Polynesia).

Tung Nguyen

Tung Nguyen is a senior associate at BakerHostetler in Washington, DC, specializing in international trade. He has extensive experience advising and representing foreign governments and companies in U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, as well as in safeguards (Section 201), unfair trade (Section 301), and national security (Section 232) duty proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission. Tung also provides guidance on complex tariff and customs compliance issues, including country of origin, classification, customs valuation, protests, and trade policy matters. He and his team frequently appear before the U.S. Court of International Trade, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and NAFTA/USMCA panels to litigate international trade issues.