Maggie O’Connell
Maggie O’Connell is the Vice President of Security, Reliability, and Resilience with the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA). She is responsible for managing all aspects of INGAA’s physical and cybersecurity, reliability, resilience, and gas/electric interchangeability policy and regulatory efforts. Maggie strives to build industry consensus on cybersecurity, physical security, and emergency response policy issues; enables dialogue within the INGAA membership on security trends and regulations; and represents the INGAA membership before federal agencies and Congress as it relates to security matters.
Maggie previously served on the Executive Committee for the Chemical Sector Coordinating Council, represents INGAA before the Oil & Natural Gas Subsector Coordinating Council, and currently participates in several industry security groups, including TSA’s Surface Information Sharing Cell (SISC), InfraGard National Capital Region, and various Department of State Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) Working Groups. She also completed the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Academy training at FBI Academy in Quantico, VA. Maggie holds a B.A. in government and Spanish from Franklin & Marshall College, and an M.A. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.