Maurice Kent is the Deputy in USAID’s Cybersecurity team in the Technology Division of the Democracy, Development and Innovation Bureau. He oversees global cybersecurity capacity-building support to government and non-government partners across a range of sectors, including management of Digital APEX, one of USAID’s primary capacity-building programs. He is a 15-year civil service veteran of USAID and has worked on issues such as the intersection of national security & international development, private-sector engagement and off-grid energy, innovative finance/funding practice, higher education engagement and procurement.