Chris Boyer serves as Assistant Vice President – Global Public Policy at AT&T Services Inc.  Mr. Boyer is responsible for developing and coordinating AT&T's public policy positions related to cybersecurity.  Mr. Boyer coordinates with AT&T’s Chief Security Office (CSO) and AT&T Executives to develop and advance AT&T’s strategic policy positions related to cybersecurity.  Mr. Boyer represents AT&T in a wide variety of legislative, regulatory and policy development proceedings and before stakeholders on the Federal and state levels and in a variety of international forums.  

Mr. Boyer also serves on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Internet Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB); the board of the National Cyber Security Alliance, a public private partnership dedicated to promoting cyber security awareness and education; and co-chairs the public policy committee for the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), an industry organization focused on botnets, malware, spam and other forms of online exploitation.  Mr. Boyer is a member of the Communications Sector Coordinating Council (CSCC) and the CTIA cybersecurity working group and also a member of a variety of working groups on the FCC’s Communications Security Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC).  

Mr. Boyer joined AT&T in 1993 and has held various positions in AT&T’s corporate public policy, network planning and engineering, product marketing and network services departments including extensive experience working on AT&T's U-verse, broadband, VoIP and IPTV initiatives.  Mr. Boyer holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from the University of Kansas and an MBA from the University of Houston in Houston, TX.  He currently resides in Bethesda, MD.