Krystal Kaul
Krystle Veda Kaul is a strategic communications, federal business development, geopolitical and policy expert, educator and an advisor with 19+ years of experience. Currently, Ms. Kaul is the Founder and CEO of Krystle Klear Communications LLC advising several high-profile technology clients with business development and strategic messaging to the Department of Defense ranging from startups to mega corporations, including Intel Corporation and Bank of New York Mellon. Krystle is also the Head Facilitator at MIT Sloan School of Management for a MBA Executive Management communication course through 2U. She was the first ever Director of Strategic Communications (GS-15) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Krystle also served as the Director of Strategic Communications to the Air Force through General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). She has worked several technology topic areas to include AI/ML, smart cities, IoT, 5G, cloud computing, big data analytics, cybersecurity etc.
Before joining the government, Ms. Kaul was the Strategic Communications Lead for the National Counterproliferation Center at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) through Booz Allen Hamilton. Prior, she worked at Deloitte supporting several clients in the DoD and the Intelligence Community, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. Ms. Kaul has experience at the RAND Corporation leading a study on civil-military relations in Afghanistan, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Center for Strategic and International Studies South Asia Center and United Nations Women. She holds eleven competitive fellowships and participation in elite overseas delegations which include the “Indian American Leaders Delegation to Israel” with the American Jewish Committee and the Washington Leadership Program’s delegation to meet with several senior officials in India.
She has experience in sixty-eight countries and speaks eight languages, including Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Punjabi and Dari. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in international studies and women in politics from American University's School of International Service, a Master of Arts in international relations with a focus on South Asian security from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Master of Arts in political science from Brown University where she has a Ph.D. in progress. Her doctoral research examines violent and nonviolent protest culture in the Kashmiri and Palestinian national movements and future trends of violence.
