B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1996
J.D., Harvard Law School, 2000
Cristina Posa, who joined JCU in 2026, has nearly 20 years' experience investigating and prosecuting international cybercrime, organized crime, and corruption matters. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Johns Hopkins University, she served as a United States federal prosecutor from 2007 until 2019, first in the Eastern District of New York, where she founded the office's cybercrime unit, then as the U.S. Department of Justice Attaché to the US Embassy in Rome, and finally at the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section at main Justice. She was awarded the DOJ Director’s Award and Federal Law Enforcement Foundation’s Prosecutor of the Year Award for a multi-year investigation to dismantle an international cybercrime syndicate.
Cristina Posa then joined the private sector at Amazon, where she founded and led the company's Counterfeit Crimes Unit, and at Meta, where she led the Security Legal - Law Enforcement Outreach team for Europe, Middle East, and Africa. She is currently a Cybercrime Expert for the Council of Europe and a Senior Advisor in the Forensic Investigations and Intelligence practice group at RSM Italy. She is a member of the New York State Bar and frequently publishes on emerging issues in cybersecurity and international investigations.
