Senior Advisor Defense Industrial Strategy Team Department of Defense
Biography
Julie Cairns is a senior advisor in the Policy Group at the Department of National Defense, where she works on the Defense Industrial Strategy. Julie has over 20 years of experience in defense policy development. She has held several positions at the Department’s headquarters in Ottawa, as well as at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), where she represented Canada and worked as a member of the International Secretariat. Julie holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto and a master’s degree in science from the London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).
