Kevin Powers is the faculty director and lecturer in law for the Master of Legal Studies (MLS) in Cybersecurity, Risk & Governance Program at Boston College Law School. Previously, Kevin founded and directed the MS in Cybersecurity Policy and Governance Program at BC, where he was an assistant professor of the Practice at BC Law and at the Carroll School of Management’s Business Law and Society department. 

With more than 25 years of combined cybersecurity, data privacy, AI, business strategy, law enforcement, military, national security, higher education, and teaching experience, he has worked as an analyst and an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Defense, law firms in Boston and Washington, D.C., and as the general counsel for an international software company based in Seattle. Along with his teaching at BC, Kevin is a Cybersecurity Research Affiliate at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a lecturer for MIT Sloan's Executive Education Program "(Cybersecurity Governance for the Board of Directors") He has also taught courses at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was the deputy general counsel to the superintendent.  

Powers is an expert witness and consultant with the Analysis Group and serves as the chair of the Board of Trustees for Boston College High School, a director for the board of Reading Cooperative Bank, and a cybersecurity advisor for the Bain Capital Ventures-backed company HYCU, Inc. 

He also served as a member of the Boston College Law School Business Advisory Council (2018-2023) and served as the panel lead (2016-2017) for the Collegiate Working Group for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education. A Navy veteran, Powers regularly provides expert commentary regarding cybersecurity and national security concerns for local, national, and international media outlets.