Bridget Bean

Executive Director

Bridget Bean

Bridget Bean is the Executive Director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), serving as the senior career official for CISA responsible for the internal operationalization of the agency’s priorities and resources to meet our mission requirements. By driving integration and alignment internally and externally, the EXDIR drives enterprise operational excellence and institutional continuity to realize the full range of the agency’s capabilities. 

Before accepting this role, Bridget was the agency’s first Chief Integration Officer. As CISA’s Chief Integration Officer, Bridget led the integration of the agency’s operations and ensured CISA’s frontline of regional staff seamlessly supported the critical infrastructure that Americans rely on every hour of every day. Through Bridget’s leadership, CISA expanded the delivery of services by four-fold, demonstrably reducing risk to critical infrastructure. She enhanced the mission effectiveness of CISA as the National Coordinator for Critical Infrastructure and Resilience by unifying end-to-end operational visibility for physical, cyber, and communications activities. Additionally, Bridget oversaw the provision of incident-specific intelligence context and products to support all missions and conducted continuity planning and internal drills needed to track and improve the overall operational readiness throughout the enterprise.

Before joining CISA, Ms. Bean was an independent consultant helping state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, as well as small businesses and nonprofits, solve complex problems.

Bridget previously served as FEMA’s Acting Deputy Administrator for Resilience, the agency’s third ranking official. At FEMA Bridget led a team of 1,600 employees and directed an annual budget of $600 million.  Prior to that role, she led FEMA’s Grants Program Directorate, where she oversaw the strategic alignment of $20 billion in Homeland Security grants with emerging, multi-faceted threats, as well as the $600 million Grants Management Modernization effort. Bridget has also served as a Senior Executive at the Small Business Administration (SBA) where she had extensive operational assignments in National Preparedness, Human Capital, and Economic Development.