Caroline Berson is Senior Director, Strategic Engagement at PepsiCo. Previously, she was the director for stakeholder engagement and external affairs within PepsiCo’s Public Policy and Government Affairs (PPGA) office. Based in Washington, D.C., she leads the development of PPGA briefers and Board materials, helping shape and inform senior PepsiCo executives’ engagement on key policy issues and with global stakeholders. Prior to joining PepsiCo, she was at the White House National Security Council and National Economic Council as senior advisor to the deputy national security advisor for international economics. In that role, she helped coordinate U.S. policy related to international finance, trade, investment, energy and environmental issues, and advised the president’s representative to the G-7 and G-20. She previously served as the intelligence briefer to the office of the vice president, where she was responsible for providing daily updates on a wide range of global issues impacting national security. Prior to that, Berson served as an intelligence analyst at the Treasury Department, where she was a subject matter expert on Iran and several other countries across the Middle East and Africa, writing frequently on sanctions, banking, energy, and transportation issues for the president and senior U.S. policymakers. Berson began her career in journalism and has had her work appear in Slate, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the New Haven Independent. Berson earned her M.A. in government from Johns Hopkins University and her B.A. in English from Yale University.