WIN Advisory Board Member

Mari K Eder

Retired U.S. Army Major General and Author

Mari K. Eder, retired U.S. Army Major General, is a renowned speaker and author, and a thought leader on strategic communication and leadership.   General Eder has served as Director of Public Affairs at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies and as an adjunct professor and lecturer in communications and public diplomacy at the NATO School and Sweden’s International Training Command.  She served in a number of senior positions in the Pentagon, on the Army Staff, as Deputy Chief of Public Affairs and Deputy Chief of the Army Reserve, and with DoD’s Reserve Forces Policy Board. General Eder speaks and writes frequently on communication, history, and cyber security topics in universities and for international audiences and consults on communications issues.

General Eder is the author of The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women who Changed the Course of WWII. Her latest communications book, American Cyberscape: Trials and the Path to Trust, was released in November, 2020, a partner book to her earlier volume, Leading the Narrative: The Case for Strategic Communication. When not writing, lecturing, or traveling, she works with rescue groups and fosters rescue dogs.