Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer

Janet Rathod joined The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine in September 2024 as vice president and chief information security officer. In this role, Rathod oversees information security governance, risk assessment, policy development, compliance, education, incident response and security operations functions.

Before joining Johns Hopkins, Rathod was the global head of cyberthreat intelligence at Citigroup, where she led multiple global teams in performing cyber technical and strategic analysis to drive defensive controls and mitigate emerging threats.

Before Citigroup, Rathod was a senior director of cyber operations and intelligence at Capital One Financial Corporation, where she created and led cybersecurity functions with firmwide scope and impact.

She also served for 16 years with the FBI, and she was a member of the Senior Executive Service, where she governed the intelligence program for 56 field offices and four operational divisions.

During her tenure with the FBI, she served as an adjunct faculty member for counterterrorism at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. There, she completed overseas assignments, helping to build the FBI’s information-sharing component for the bureau’s counterterrorism division. She also led intelligence training programs for Fortune 500 companies including the Walt Disney Company, Sony Electronics and Western Union.

Rathod earned a master’s degree in public administration from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Nebraska Wesleyan University. She studied abroad at the American University in Cairo, and Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, India. She was a public policy and international affairs fellow and a presidential management fellow.