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Forum TeamINTRODUCTION
Welcome to the fifth annual Aspen Security Forum. The Forum brings to the Aspen Institute’s idyllic campus in Aspen, Colorado the nation’s most senior present and former government officials from all the key agencies: the White House; the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State, Treasury, and Justice; the intelligence community; and the Congress, as well as leading thinkers in the field and some of the nation’s most notable print and broadcast journalists. For three days, we discuss and debate the key issues of the day relating to America’s security.
As we gather this week in Aspen, a bewildering array of issues will fill the agenda. It is as if nearly every imaginable security crisis is unfolding right before our eyes, and all at the same time. After a few years when terrorism seemed to be on its way to becoming a second order concern, much like in the years before 9/11, terrorism is back, front and center, on the national security agenda. As President Obama put it in his West Point commencement address this summer, “for the foreseeable future, the most direct threat to America, at home and abroad, remains terrorism.” As if to prove the point, Al Qaeda’s influence is spreading like a virulent virus throughout the world. Boko Haram is wreaking havoc in Nigeria, and Al Shabab in Somalia and Kenya. Al Qaeda elements in Syria and Iraq are now fighting in common cause to create a new terrorist training ground and launching pad for global jihad right in the heart of the Middle East. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has stressed that this conflict is a homeland security issue; it poses a direct threat to America, here at home. Meanwhile, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process appears dead. The promise of democracy in the Arab world has now given way to either the autocracy of the past or chaotic instability. Whether there will be a negotiated solution to the nuclear standoff with Iran now appears to be a 50-50 proposition at best.
As if this were not enough of a challenge for policymakers, China continues to flex its muscle in the Asia-Pacific, challenging our longtime geopolitical supremacy in the region. And, of course, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and continued menacing of Ukraine suggests that its Cold War ambitions did not die with the Soviet Union.
Against this backdrop of security challenges, America faces considerable constraints: war weariness; declining budgets; rising isolationism, even within the formerly reflexively militarist Republican Party; toxic partisanship; and a distrust of government and expansive conception of privacy that have only increased with the still headline-grabbing Snowden revelations.
With its breathtaking beauty high in the Colorado Rockies and its air of informality, Aspen is the perfect venue for us to consider the most profound security issues facing our country and the world today. We hope that the Forum will exceed your expectations and that you will leave on Saturday night with more answers than questions.
Clark K. Ervin
Director, Homeland Security Program The Aspen Institute
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INTRODUCTION
OVERVIEW
Through public and invitation-only forums, roundtables, and conferences, speeches, books, opinion editorials, social media outlets, and media interviews and appearances, the Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Program works to heighten public awareness as to the nation’s continued vulnerability to terrorism and to persuade decision makers to take the necessary steps to close the gap between how secure we should be and how secure we actually are.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
ASPEN SECURITY FORUMIn partnership with The New York Times and CNN, the Aspen Security Forum brings to our campus in Aspen each summer senior present and former government officials from all the relevant agencies—the White House; the Congress; the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State, Treasury, and Justice; and the intelligence community; a number of foreign officials; leading thinkers; and nationally noted print and broadcast journalists to discuss and debate the issues of the day in the fields of counterterrorism in particular and national security in general. We plan to launch a global version of the Aspen Security Forum in the future. For more information about the Forum, please visit: www.aspensecurityforum.org.
INVITATION-ONLY POLICY PROGRAMS
ASPEN INSTITUTE HOMELAND SECURITY GROUPModeled on the longstanding Aspen Strategy Group, a bipartisan group of foreign policy experts, the Aspen Institute Homeland Security Group is a bipartisan group of homeland security and counterterrorism experts whom the program periodically convenes in Washington, DC and at our Aspen campus to discuss issues in depth and make recommendations to policymakers. The Aspen Institute Homeland Security Group is co-chaired by former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and former Congresswoman Jane Harman. For more information about the group, including full membership, please visit: www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/homeland-security/ahsg.
AMBASSADORS’ SECURITY ROUNDTABLE
Underwritten by a grant from AGT International, the roundtable is a periodic convening of
ambassadors on a regional basis at the Institute’s Wye River campus on Maryland’s Eastern Shore for the ambassadors to discuss common and differing regional and international security concerns. Each convening focuses on a different region and is moderated by a prominent journalist with area-related expertise.
ROUNDTABLE ON HOW THE VENTURE CAPITAL INDUSTRY CAN HELP TO SECURE THE HOMELAND
In partnership with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Stanford University; and a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Levensohn Venture Partners, the program convened Silicon Valley venture capitalists and key Washington decision makers in the homeland security and intelligence communities at Stanford in October 2009 to discuss how the venture capital industry can play a greater role in founding and funding homeland security-related technologies. A follow-up discussion took place in October 2010 in Cambridge, MA for Boston-area venture capitalists.
LUNCHEON ROUNDTABLES
The Program occasionally features government officials and other newsmakers for luncheon roundtable discussions about key homeland security, national security, and counterterrorism issues. Featured guests have included then Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano; then National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter; and then Terrorist Screening Center Director Timothy Healy.
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Government and Commercial Cyber Operations, Palantir; National Security Analyst, NBC News
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Former Acting and Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
ADM. ERIC OLSON (RET.) Former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command MODERATOR ERIC SCHMITT National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
12:15 – 12:45 PM LUNCH
BARKSDALE LOBBY, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
12:45 – 1:45 PM ASSESSING THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Are we safer today than we were when DHS was created more than a decade ago? What progress has it made? What more must it do to secure the homeland?
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
JEH JOHNSON Secretary of Homeland Security
MODERATOR DINA TEMPLE-RASTON Counterterrorism Correspondent, NPR
1:45 – 2:45 PM STRIKING THE RIGHT BALANCE BETWEEN SECURITY AND LIBERTY
We are still in the post-9/11 era, but we are also in the post-Edward Snowden era. Citizens’ expectation that the government will protect them from security threats is unchanged, but they are much less willing now than they were in the immediate aftermath of the terror attacks to grant the government virtual carte blanche to do what it thinks is necessary to respond to these threats. What is the “right” balance between security and liberty?
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
RAJ DE General Counsel, National Security Agency
ROBERT LITT General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence JOHN RIZZO Former Deputy and Acting General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency; Senior Counsel, Steptoe & Johnson LLP
SCOTT CHARNEY Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft MODERATOR GREG MILLER National Security Correspondent, The Washington Post
2:45 – 3:00 PM BREAK
3:00 – 4:00 PM THE FUTURE OF WARFARE
Our still formidable nuclear arsenal and our supremacy in conventional armaments are of limited use in a world now dominated by the asymmetric tactics of terrorists and cyber-warriors. What are the new weapons—and new conceptions of warfare— that can help America maintain its strategic and tactical edge?
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
DR. ARATI PRABHAKAR Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DAWN MEYERRIECKS Deputy Director, Directorate of Science and Technology, Central Intelligence Agency
DR. STEVE CHAN Director, Network Science Research Center, IBM LYNN DUGLE President, Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services; Vice President, Raytheon Company
MODERATOR NOAH SHACHTMAN Executive Editor, The Daily Beast
4:00 – 4:15 PM BREAK
6:00 – 7:00 PM THIS WE’LL DEFEND: THE ARMY’S ROLE IN DEFENDING THE NATION AGAINST
TODAY’S SECURITY AND FISCAL CHALLENGES
The Chief of Staff surveys the foreboding global scene and explains how the Army can rise to meet the threats facing us, despite fewer troops and less money.
GREENWALD PAVILION
GEN. RAY ODIERNO Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
MODERATOR WOLF BLITZER Host, “The Situation Room,” CNN
7:15 – 8:30 PM OPENING RECEPTION
DOERR-HOSIER CENTERTHURSDAY, JULY 24
8:00 – 9:00 AM BREAKFAST
BARKSDALE LOBBY, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
9:00 – 10:00 AM U.S. COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR EMERGING
NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS
This session will explore the range of tools the United States, working alone and with our international partners, can use to respond to security threats around the globe, and the pluses and minuses associated with them.
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
JOHN CARLIN Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Department of Justice DAVID COHEN Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Department of the Treasury
AMB. TINA KAIDANOW Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of State
DR. MIKE VICKERS Under Secretary for Intelligence, Department of Defense MODERATOR BRIAN ROSS Chief Investigative Correspondent, ABC News
10:00 – 11:00 AM TSA: TOWARD A RISK-BASED APPROACH TO AVIATION SECURITY
This session will examine threats to the aviation sector and how TSA is responding to these threats with a risk-based approach, as opposed to the post-9/11 “one size fits all” assumption that each traveler is as likely as the next to be a terrorist.
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
JOHN PISTOLE Administrator, Transportation Security Administration
MODERATOR CATHERINE HERRIDGE Chief Intelligence Correspondent, Fox News
11:00 – 11:15 AM BREAK
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM RETHINKING THE U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY APPARATUS
This session will discuss whether the United States government is properly structured, financed, and staffed to meet the security threats of today.
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
GEN. MICHAEL HAYDEN (RET.) Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Former Director, National Security Agency; Principal, The Chertoff Group MIKE LEITER Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center; Head of Global
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4:15 – 5:15 PM SCREENING & DISCUSSION:
THE WAR GENERALS
This session will feature a discussion of and clips from The War Generals, a National Geographic documentary about the transformation of the Army since the Vietnam War told through the stories and voices of its leading combat generals. The film explores how an Army unprepared to fight a guerilla war in Vietnam was transformed into an army geared towards a conventional war against the Soviets— and subsequently Saddam Hussein’s forces in the Gulf War—only to be faced once again with guerilla wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
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GEN. GEORGE CASEY JR. (RET.) Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; President and CEO, Minot Group LLC
GEN. WESLEY CLARK (RET.) Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO; Former Commander, U.S. European Command; Founder and CEO,
Wesley K. Clark & Associates
MODERATOR PETER BERGEN Co-Producer and Co-Writer, The War Generals; National Security Analyst, CNN; Vice President, Director of Studies and Fellows, New America Foundation
5:15 – 5:30 PM BREAK
5:30 – 6:30 PM BRINGING INTO BALANCE THE MILITARY INSTRUMENT OF POWER
The President famously said at this summer’s West Point commencement that “U.S. military action cannot be the only or even primary component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.” With a war-weary public and a declining military budget, but no end of security threats from one end of the globe to the other, what should be the military’s role in countering these threats?
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense MODERATOR LESLEY STAHL Correspondent, “60 Minutes,” CBS News
9:00 – 10:00 PM ASF-EXCLUSIVE SCREENING: NBC’S STATE OF AFFAIRS
ASF 2014 is pleased to present an exclusive preview of the pilot episode of State of Affairs, a prime time NBC show set to premiere November 2014. Starring Emmy winners Katherine Heigl and Alfre Woodard, the show follows the daily life of the CIA analyst whose job it is to assemble and deliver the President’s Daily Briefing.
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12:45 – 1:30 PM LUNCH
BARKSDALE LOBBY, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
1:30 – 2:30 PM “NATIONAL” SECURITY AND “HOMELAND” SECURITY
Four key former high-level government officials give their similar and differing perspectives on the various threats facing the United States, here at home and across the globe.
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
DAVID HEYMAN Former Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security JOHN NEGROPONTE Former Director of National Intelligence; Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates
FRANCES TOWNSEND Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; Executive Vice President, Worldwide Government Legal and Business Affairs, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc.
JUAN ZARATE Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism; Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Senior National Security Analyst, CBS News
MODERATOR MICHAEL CROWLEY Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, TIME
2:30 – 2:45 PM BREAK
2:45 – 3:45 PM WMD: THE NIGHTMARE SCENARIO
One of the few things all of Washington agrees on is that the number one security threat is the threat of a weapon of mass destruction in the hands of terrorists. Key leaders in countering this threat give us their respective insights.
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
DR. HUBAN GOWADIA Director, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Department of Homeland Security
LAURA HOLGATE Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism and Threat Reduction, National Security Council ANDREW WEBER Assistant Secretary for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs, Department of Defense
MICHAEL FEY Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and General Manager of Corporate Products, Intel Security
MODERATOR J. PETER SCOBLIC Contributing Editor and Former Executive Editor, Foreign Policy
3:45 – 4:00 PM BREAK
4:00 – 5:00 PM “PIVOTING” TO ASIA
This session will explore the geopolitical rise of China, the threat it poses to its neighbors in the region, and the implications for American security.
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
DANIEL RUSSEL Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
AMB. ASHOK MIRPURI Ambassador of Singapore to the U.S.
AMB. CHRISTOPHER HILL Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Dean, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver MODERATOR JOSH ROGIN Senior Correspondent, The Daily Beast
8:00 – 9:00 AM BREAKFAST
BARKSDALE LOBBY, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
9:00 – 10:00 AM INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION IN COUNTERTERRORISM
This session will explore the respective roles of key actors at various levels of government and in the private sector in counterterrorism and how cooperation among them can be improved.
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
MATT OLSEN Director, National Counterterrorism Center WILLIAM BRATTON Commissioner, New York Police Department
ROBERT MUELLER Former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
RALPH BOELTER Vice President, Corporate Security, Target; Former Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation
MODERATOR MIKE ISIKOFF Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
10:00 – 10:15 AM BREAK
10:15 – 11:15 AM FROM TERRORISM TO COLD WAR-LIKE CONVENTIONAL MILITARY
ADVENTURISM—IS EUROPE UP TO THE TEST?
It was not that long ago that NATO was a solution in search of a problem, an alliance in need of an enemy to defend against. With Putin’s apparent determination to reclaim at least some parts of the Soviet empire, NATO’s raison d’etre has never seemed clearer. Moreover, the post-9/11 threat of terrorism remains; if anything, it appears to be intensifying. Does Europe have the means and the will to respond to these threats?
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
GILLES DE KERCHOVE Counterterrorism Coordinator, European Union AMB. DOUGLAS LUTE U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO
AMB. SIR PETER WESTMACOTT Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the U.S. MODERATOR ELISE LABOTT Foreign Affairs Reporter, CNN
11:15 – 11:30 AM BREAK
11:30 AM – 12:45 PM AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN: LESSONS AND PROSPECTS
The long war in Afghanistan is ending, and, with his presidency, so is our strained relationship with Hamid Karzai. New leadership in Kabul notwithstanding, given our imminent withdrawal and continued instability in neighboring Pakistan, is the return of the Taliban and Al Qaeda inevitable?
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
AMB. JAMES DOBBINS Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Department of State
JEFF EGGERS Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan, National Security Council
AMB. EKLIL HAKIMI Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.S. AMB. JALIL JILANI Ambassador Pakistan to the U.S.
GEN. JOHN ALLEN (RET.) Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense on Middle East Security; Former Commander, International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan
MODERATOR KIMBERLY DOZIER Contributing Writer, The Daily Beast
PROGRAM
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11:15 – 11:30 AM BREAK
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM SECURITY CHALLENGES IN THE EVER-EVOLVING CYBER REALM
If the good news is that cyber threats are now on everybody’s radar screen, the bad news is that we seem no closer to getting a handle on how to counter them. What can we do to counter this ever evolving threat?
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
RICHARD LEDGETT Deputy Director, National Security Agency
MODERATOR DAVID SANGER Chief Washington Correspondent, The New York Times
12:30 – 1:30 PM LUNCH
BARKSDALE LOBBY, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
1:30 – 2:30 PM THE VIEW FROM THE WEST WING
The President’s Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor gives us a peek into how the Oval Office sees the global threat picture and the Administration’s strategy for addressing it.
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
LISA MONACO Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism MODERATOR MARGARET WARNER Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent,
PBS NewsHour
2:30 – 2:45 AM BREAK
2:45 – 3:45 PM THE MIDEAST IN CRISIS, AGAIN
The promise of the Arab Spring has given way to despair as the region reverts to autocracy. The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have collapsed. Syria is in turmoil and fast becoming the next Ground Zero for attacks on the U.S. homeland. Our long investment of blood and treasure in Iraq seems for nought, as the nation erupts in flames. The prospect of a diplomatic solution to the nuclear crisis with Iran now seems remote. Various experts weigh in with their views as to what, if anything, can be done to resolve the many conflicts roiling the region.
AMB. MOHAMED TAWFIK Ambassador of Egypt to the U.S.
AMB. ROBERT FORD Former Ambassador of the U.S. to Syria; Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute
GEN. JAMES MATTIS (RET.) Former Commander, U.S. Central Command; Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
AMB. DENNIS ROSS Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for the Central Region, National Security Council; William Davidson Distinguished Fellow and Counselor, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
MODERATOR MARGARET BRENNAN Correspondent, CBS News
3:45 – 4:00 PM BREAK
5:00 – 5:15 PM BREAK
5:15 – 6:15 PM CHALLENGES FACING THE U.S. NAVY
It seems as though everyone today, from the President on down, is opposed to the large-scale deployment of American troops to the world’s various trouble spots. At a time of increasing global threats, this aversion to land war puts a premium on other services, particularly the U.S. Navy. The Navy’s top commander gives us his take on the threats and what the Navy is doing to counter them.
GREENWALD PAVILION
ADM. JONATHAN GREENERT Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy
MODERATOR DAVID IGNATIUS Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
SATURDAY, JULY 26
8:00 – 9:00 AM BREAKFAST
BARKSDALE LOBBY, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
9:00 – 10:00 AM DOES POLITICS STILL STOP AT THE WATER’S EDGE?
The post-World War II bipartisan foreign policy consensus is a thing of the past. Our political parties are divided today even on national security issues, perhaps, even, especially national security issues. With such a menacing global threat picture, can America afford to speak with two voices? If not, what can be done to find core common ground?
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL Chairman, House Committee on Homeland Security JANE HARMAN Director, President, and CEO, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
MODERATOR JOSH GERSTEIN Senior White House Reporter, POLITICO
10:00 – 10:15 AM BREAK
10:15 – 11:15 AM REFLECTING ON THE 9/11 COMMISSION: ARE WE SAFER TODAY?
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 Commission. How much safer are we, and how much safer do we need to be?
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
CHARLES ALLEN Former Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis; Principal, The Chertoff Group
JEREMY BASH Former Chief of Staff, Department of Defense; Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency; Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies
RICHARD BEN-VENISTE Former Commissioner, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States; Partner, Mayer Brown LLP
MICHAEL CHERTOFF Former Secretary of Homeland Security; Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, The Chertoff Group
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4:00 – 5:00 PM DEFENSE SUPPORT OF CIVIL AUTHORITIES — THE ROLE OF DOD IN
HOMELAND SECURITY
This session will explore the Department of Defense’s civil authorities and domestic responsibilities, as well as NORAD’s role in protecting and defending the continental United States.
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR-HOSIER CENTER
GEN. CHARLES JACOBY Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command
MODERATOR KEN DILANIAN Intelligence Writer, Associated Press
5:00 – 5:15 PM BREAK
5:15 – 6:15 PM THE GLOBAL THREAT PICTURE AS THE DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY SEES IT
The Director of the Pentagon’s intelligence agency gives us his take on the security challenges of the day and a preview of those to come.
LT. GEN. MICHAEL FLYNN Director, Defense Intelligence Agency MODERATOR WOLF BLITZER Host, “The Situation Room,” CNN
6:15 – 8:00 PM CLOSING RECEPTION
MARBLE GARDENCharles Allen Former Under Secretar y of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis; Principal, The Cher tof f Group
John Allen Senior Advisor to the Secretar y of Defense on Middle East Security; Former Commander, International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan
Jeremy Bash Former Chief of Staf f, Depar tment of Defense; Former Chief of Staf f, Central Intelligence Agency; Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies
Richard Ben-Veniste Former Commissioner, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States; Par tner, Mayer Brown LLP
Ralph Boelter Vice President, Corporate Security, Target; Former Assistant Director, Counter terrorism Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation
William Bratton Commissioner, New York Police Depar tment
John Carlin Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Department of Justice George Casey Jr. Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; President and CEO, Minot Group LLC
Steve Chan Director, Network Science Research Center, IBM
Scott Charney Corporate Vice President, Trustwor thy Computing, Microsof t Michael Chertoff Former Secretar y of Homeland Security; Executive Chairman and
Co-Founder, The Cher tof f Group
Wesley Clark Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO; Former Commander, U.S. European Command; Founder and CEO, Wesley K. Clark & Associates
David Cohen Under Secretar y for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Depar tment of the Treasur y
Raj De General Counsel, National Security Agency Gilles De Kerchove Counter terrorism Coordinator, European Union
Martin Dempsey Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staf f, Depar tment of Defense James Dobbins Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Department of State
Lynn Dugle President, Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services; Vice President, Ray theon Company
Jeff Eggers Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan, National Security Council
Clark Ervin Director, Homeland Security Program, The Aspen Institute; Par tner, Squire Patton Boggs LLP
Michael Fey Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Of ficer, and General Manager of Corporate Products, Intel Security
Michael Flynn Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Robert Ford Former Ambassador of the U.S. to Syria; Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute
Huban Gowadia Director, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Department of Homeland Security
Jonathan Greenert Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Nav y Eklil Hakimi Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.S.
Jane Harman Director, President, and CEO, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Michael Hayden Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Former Director, National Security Agency; Principal, The Cher tof f Group
David Heyman Former Assistant Secretar y for Policy, Depar tment of Homeland Security
Christopher Hill Former Assistant Secretar y of State for East Asian and Pacific Af fairs; Dean, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
Laura Holgate Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism and Threat Reduction, National Security Council Charles Jacoby Commander, Nor th American Aerospace Defense Command and
U.S. Nor thern Command
Jalil Jilani Ambassador of Pakistan to the U.S. Jeh Johnson Secretar y of Homeland Security
Tina Kaidanow Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counter terrorism, Depar tment of State
Richard Ledgett Deputy Director, National Security Agency
Mike Leiter Former Director, National Counter terrorism Center; Head of Global Government and Commercial Cyber Operations, Palantir; National Security Analyst, NBC News
Robert Litt General Counsel, Of fice of the Director of National Intelligence Douglas Lute U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO
James Mattis Former Commander, U.S. Central Command; Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Michael McCaul Chairman, House Committee on Homeland Security
John McLaughlin Former Acting and Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Dawn Meyerriecks Deputy Director, Directorate of Science and Technology, Central Intelligence Agency
Ashok Mirpuri Ambassador of Singapore to the U.S.
Lisa Monaco Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Robert Mueller Former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Par tner,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
John Negroponte Former Director of National Intelligence; Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates Ray Odierno Chief of Staf f, U.S. Army
Matt Olsen Director, National Counter terrorism Center
Eric Olson Former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command John Pistole Administrator, Transpor tation Security Administration Arati Prabhakar Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
John Rizzo Former Deputy and Acting General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency; Senior Counsel, Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Dennis Ross Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for the Central Region, National Security Council; William Davidson Distinguished Fellow and Counselor, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Daniel Russel Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State Mohamed Tawfik Ambassador of Egypt to the U.S.
Frances Townsend Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counter terrorism; Executive Vice President, Worldwide Government Legal and Business Af fairs, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc.
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Mike Vickers Under Secretar y for Intelligence, Depar tment of Defense
Andrew Weber Assistant Secretar y for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs, Depar tment of Defense
Peter Westmacott Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the U.S.
Juan Zarate Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism; Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Senior National Security Analyst, CBS News
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Peter Bergen Co-Producer and Co-Writer, The War Generals; National Security Analyst, CNN; Vice President, Director of Studies and Fellows, New America Foundation
Wolf Blitzer Host, “The Situation Room,” CNN Margaret Brennan Correspondent, CBS News
Michael Crowley Chief Foreign Af fairs Correspondent, TIME Ken Dilanian Intelligence Writer, Associated Press Kimberly Dozier Contributing Writer, The Daily Beast
Josh Gerstein Senior White House Repor ter, POLITICO Catherine Herridge Chief Intelligence Correspondent, Fox News
David Ignatius Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post Mike Isikoff Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News Elise Labott Foreign Af fairs Repor ter, CNN
Ryan Lizza Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker
Greg Miller National Security Correspondent, The Washington Post Josh Rogin Senior Correspondent, The Daily Beast
Brian Ross Chief Investigative Correspondent, ABC News
David Sanger Chief Washington Correspondent, The New York Times Eric Schmitt National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
J. Peter Scoblic Contributing Editor and Former Executive Editor, Foreign Policy Noah Shachtman Executive Editor, The Daily Beast
Lesley Stahl Correspondent, “60 Minutes,” CBS News Dina Temple-Raston Counter terrorism Correspondent, NPR
Margaret Warner Chief Foreign Af fairs Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
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CHARLES ALLEN Charles Allen is a Principal at The Chertoff Group, a global security advisory firm that provides consulting, business development and merger and acquisition advisory services for clients in the security, defense, and government services industries. Mr. Allen worked at the CIA for over forty years, and he became the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection in 1998. He was appointed by President George W. Bush as Under Secretary for Intelligence Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security from 2007 to 2009. He also served as the CIA’s National Intelligence Officer for Warning, Director of the National Warning Staff, National Intelligence Officer for Counterterrorism, and Deputy Chief for Intelligence of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.
JOHN ALLEN General John R. Allen is a retired four-star general who served as the Commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and the Commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan from 2011 to 2013. He is the first Marine to command a theater of war, and is the longest serving commander in that conflict. Concluding a distinguished 38 year career in the spring of 2013, General Allen serves as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense on Middle East Security, and has affiliations with the Brookings Institution, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the Atlantic Council, and Council on Foreign Relations.
JEREMY BASH Jeremy B. Bash is a Founder and Managing Director of Beacon Global Strategies, LLC. Previously, Mr. Bash served as a senior advisor to Leon E. Panetta as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense and Chief of Staff to the Director of the CIA. While serving on Capitol Hill, Mr. Bash was Chief Counsel to the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and a senior national security advisor to Congresswoman Jane Harman. Mr. Bash graduated from Georgetown University. He earned his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
RICHARD BEN-VENISTE
Richard Ben-Veniste is a litigator who focuses on civil litigation and white collar criminal cases. He also advises organizations and individuals involved in congressional
investigations. In 2009, Mr. Ben-Veniste served on a task force created by the Secretary of DHS to assess the national alert system and make recommendations for improvement. From 2003 to 2004, Mr. Ben-Veniste served as one of ten commissioners on the bipartisan “9/11 Commission.” Ben-Veniste also served as one of the lead prosecutors on the Watergate Special Prosecution Forces and chief counsel (minority) of the Senate
Whitewater Committee. In 2014, he was appointed to the NSA Advisory Board legal panel, providing advice to the Director of NSA and its office of General Counsel.
RALPH BOELTER As Vice President of Corporate Security for Target, Mr. Boelter provides the vision and direction for a broad set of global security functions for the corporation, including risk intelligence, investigations and forensics, crisis management and response, business continuity, as well as security of all headquarters facilities and personnel, and all of Target’s international-based assets. Prior to joining Target, Mr. Boelter served with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for 21 years, retiring as the Assistant FBI Director in charge of the Counterterrorism Division. He previously served as the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Minneapolis Division from 2008 to 2012. He received his B.A from National University, in San Diego, and his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
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BILL BRATTON William J. Bratton is the 42nd Police Commissioner of the City of New York, having also served as the city’s 38th police commissioner in the mid-1990s. He has led progressive change, as commissioner or chief, in five other police departments, including police
agencies in Boston and Los Angeles. At the NYPD in 1994 and 1995, he oversaw the development of Compstat, the acclaimed command accountability and crime-fighting system and a key contributor to the largest crime declines in New York City history. At the LAPD, from 2002 to 2009, he brought crime to historically low levels while greatly improving community and race relations. As a police sergeant in 1976 he was cited with the Boston Police Department’s top award for valor for facing down a bank robber and rescuing a hostage.
JOHN CARLIN John P. Carlin is the Assistant Attorney General for National Security of the Department of Justice (DOJ). He most recently served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff of the DOJ’s National Security Division (NSD). Previously, Mr. Carlin served as Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to the Director of the FBI. A career federal prosecutor, Mr. Carlin served as National Coordinator of DOJ’s Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) program, a cadre of prosecutors specially trained to prosecute cyber-crime and intellectual property cases. Mr. Carlin earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1999 from Harvard Law School.
GEORGE CASEY General George W. Casey, Jr. enjoyed a 41-year career in the U.S. Army following his graduation from Georgetown University in 1970. He is an accomplished soldier and an authority on strategic leadership. As the Army Chief of Staff, he led one of our largest, most
complex organizations. He is widely credited with restoring balance to a war-weary Army and leading the transformation to keep it relevant in the 21st Century. In his retirement, he remains committed to our servicemen and women. He sits on numerous boards and teaches and lectures on leadership.
STEVE CHAN Dr. Steve Chan is a Director of the IBM Network Science Research Center (NSRC), focusing upon
methodologies and tools that will facilitate moving from Big Data to Big Insights to effectuate more robust decision-making when approaching the Big Problems that necessitate Big Decisions. This realm of Network/Relationship Science (NRS) and Robust Decision Engineering (RDE) collectively serve as a pivotal Data Sciences/ Analytics intellectual launching pad for attaining Big Innovation. He is a Prince of Wales Senior Fellow at MIT, a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership as well as an alumnus of MIT and Harvard University.
SCOTT CHARNEY Scott Charney joined Microsoft in 2002 as Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing and Engineering Excellence, focused on strong advocacy for public-private partnership and collaboration on Cybersecurity to ensure a safer, more trusted experience for global Internet citizens. Before joining Microsoft, Mr. Charney was a principal for PricewaterhouseCoopers, leading the firm’s Cybercrime Prevention and Response Practice. Prior to that, he served as Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Charney started his career as an Assistant District Attorney in Bronx County, New York, ultimately serving as Deputy Chief of the Investigations Bureau. He holds a law degree from Syracuse University and bachelor degrees in History and English from the State University of New York.
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MICHAEL CHERTOFF Michael Chertoff is the Executive Chairman and Managing Principal of The Chertoff Group, a global security advisory firm that provides consulting, security services, and merger and acquisition services for clients in the security, defense, and
government services industries. From 2004— 2009, Mr. Chertoff served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he led the federal government’s efforts to protect our nation from a wide range of security threats. He has served as the head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, during which he investigated and prosecuted numerous cases involving organized crime and terrorism, including the examination of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
WESLEY CLARK Wesley K. Clark is a businessman, educator, writer, and commentator. General Clark serves as Chairman and CEO of Wesley K. Clark & Associates, a strategic consulting firm; Co-Chairman of Growth Energy; senior fellow at UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations; Advisor at the Blackstone Group; Director of International Crisis Group; Clinton Global Initiative’s Energy & Climate Change Advisory Board, and ACORE’s Advisory Board. General Clark retired a four star general after 38 years in the United States Army. In his last assignment as SACEUR, he led NATO forces to victory in Operation Allied Force, saving 1.5 million Albanians from ethnic cleansing.
DAVID COHEN David Cohen was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the Treasury’s Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence on June 30, 2011. As Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Cohen leads the Treasury Department’s policy, enforcement,
regulatory, and intelligence functions aimed at identifying and disrupting the lines of financial support to international terrorist organizations and other illicit actors posing a threat to our national security. He is also responsible for overseeing the Department’s efforts to combat money laundering and financial crimes. In this role, Cohen serves as a member of the Obama Administration’s national security team in developing financial strategies to combat these wide ranging threats and protect the U.S. and international financial systems from abuse.
RAJ DE Mr. De became General Counsel for the NSA in May 2012. Prior to joining the NSA, Mr. De served in the White House as the Staff Secretary and Deputy Assistant to the President. From January 2009 to August 2010, Mr. De served in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy, first as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General and then as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General. There, he worked closely with Department leadership on policy developments and implementation across various subject areas. From 2003-2004, he served as Counsel to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the “9/11 Commission”).
GILLES DE KERCHOVE Mr. Gilles de Kerchove was appointed EU
Counterterrorism
Coordinator on September 19, 2007. He coordinates the work of the EU in the field of counterterrorism, closely monitors the implementation of the EU counterterrorism strategy, and fosters better communication between the EU and third countries to ensure that the Union plays an active role in the fight against terrorism. Prior, he was Director for Justice and Home Affairs at the Council Secretariat. He is also a European law
professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, the Free University of Brussels, and at the Université Saint Louis-Brussels.
MARTIN DEMPSEY General Martin Dempsey is the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is the highest-ranking military officer in the U.S. Armed Forces and the principal military advisor to the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council. Prior to becoming Chairman, he served as the Army’s 37th Chief of Staff. General Dempsey is a 1974 graduate of West Point. During more than 39 years of service, he has commanded at every echelon - from platoon to combatant command across the United States and the globe. General Dempsey and his wife Deanie have three children and eight grandchildren.
JAMES DOBBINS
Ambassador James Dobbins was appointed by Secretary of State John Kerry as the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan on May 10, 2013. Ambassador Dobbins previously served as director of the RAND International Security and Defense Policy Center. Dobbins earlier held State Department and White House posts including Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Special Assistant to the President, Special Adviser to the President and Secretary of State for the Balkans, and Ambassador to the European Community.
LYNN DUGLE Lynn A. Dugle is a Raytheon Company Vice President and President of Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services (IIS). IIS provides advanced cyber solutions; intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance; weather and environmental solutions; training; mission support services; and, engineering for the military, government, and commercial markets. Ms. Dugle has held officer-level positions in a variety of functions with companies such as ADC Telecommunications and Texas Instruments. She also has extensive international experience
leading teams in Australia, South America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. Ms. Dugle is a member of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) Board of Directors; the Defense Science Board; and the Clemson University College of Engineering and Science Advisory Board.
JEFF EGGERS Jeff Eggers has been serving on the White House National Security Council staff since 2010, currently as Senior Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan. A retired Naval Officer and former Navy SEAL, his previous assignments include Strategic Advisor to Commander of International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan, Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Branch Chief for Combating Terrorism on the Joint Staff, and Commander of a Special Operations Task Unit in Iraq. He served previously at the White House as a Director for Combatting Terrorism and a White House Fellow. He holds an M.A. from Oxford University and a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy. Jeff lives with his family in Virginia.
CLARK ERVIN Clark Ervin is the Director of the Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Program. Ervin served as the Inspector General of the State Department and the first Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security, during the Bush Administration. He served as the co-chair of the DHS Transition Team for the Obama Administration, and a member of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. A Graduate of Harvard and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar), Ervin is a partner at Squire Patton Boggs, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.
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MICHAEL FEY Michael Fey is the executive vice president and chief technology officer for Intel Security where he drives the long-term strategic vision and core innovation efforts. He is also responsible for overall business operations and strategy for the corporate product business units at McAfee, part of Intel Security. Prior to his current role, he was senior vice president of advanced technologies and field engineering for McAfee, and held multiple technical management positions at Opsware, Mercury Interactive, and Lockheed-Martin. He is a regular speaker and television commentator, and is co-author of Security Battleground: An Executive Field Manual.
MICHAEL FLYNN
LTG Michael Flynn is the 18th director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. With more than three decades of intelligence experience, LTG Flynn has served as the Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Partner Engagement, the top intelligence officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Director of Intelligence for the Joint Special Operations Command. In 2010, LTG Flynn published the influential report, “Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan,” that emphasized the importance of socio-cultural understanding to effective intelligence operations and has been a driven advocate for operations-intelligence fusion and greater intelligence sharing between the military and intelligence communities. A University of Rhode Island alumnus, LTG Flynn began his career as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division and holds master’s degrees in business administration, military arts and sciences, and national security and strategic studies.
ROBERT FORD Ambassador Robert S. Ford is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington where he focuses on North Africa and the Levant. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Syria from 2011-2014, and received in 2012 the Profile in Courage award from the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston for his efforts to defend human rights in Syria. He was
Ambassador to Algeria from 2006-2008, where he expanded bilateral cooperation in the rule of law and education. He also served five years in Iraq between 2003 and 2010 and helped arrange elections and the establishment of the permanent Iraqi government.
HUBAN GOWADIA Dr. Huban A. Gowadia is the Director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. Under her leadership, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office develops nuclear detection capabilities, measures detector system performance, ensures effective response to detection alarms, conducts transformational research and development, and coordinates the
improvement of technical nuclear forensics capabilities across the U.S. Government. Dr. Gowadia received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. in
Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.
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A native of Butler, Pennsylvania, Adm Jonathan Greenert is a 1975 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. His career as a submariner includes assignments aboard USS Flying Fish (SSN 673), USS Tautog (SSN 639), Submarine NR-1, USS Michigan (SSBN 727), and command of USS Honolulu (SSN 718). Subsequent fleet
command assignments include Commander, Submarine Squadron 11; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Marianas; Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet; and Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command. He has served in various fleet support and financial management positions, including Vice Chief of Naval Operations. Greenert became the 30th Chief of Naval Operations in September 2011.
EKLIL HAKIMI Ambassador Hakimi obtained a Master’s degree from the Kabul Polytechnic Institute in 1991. Ambassador Hakimi previously worked as an adviser in the fields of policy formulation at the Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission and the Office of the Vice President. He also served as Afghanistan’s Ambassador to China and Japan, and was appointed as Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs. He currently is Afghanistan’s Ambassador to the U.S. as well as Afghanistan’s non-resident envoy to Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina. Recently, Ambassador Hakimi became the Chief Negotiator on the Afghan side for the U.S.-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement, the pending successor agreement to the current Status of Forces Agreement between the two countries.
JANE HARMAN Jane Harman resigned from Congress on February 28, 2011 to join the Woodrow Wilson Center as its first female Director, President, and CEO. Representing the aerospace center of California during nine terms in Congress, she served on all the major security committees: six years on Armed Services, eight years on Intelligence, and eight on Homeland Security. She received the Defense Department Medal for Distinguished Service in 1998, the CIA Seal Medal in 2007, and the CIA Director’s Award and the Director of National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Medal in 2011. She is a member of the Defense Policy Board, State Department
Foreign Policy Board, the Director of National Intelligence’s Senior Advisory Group, and the Homeland Security Advisory Committee. She was a member of the CIA External Advisory Board from 2011 to 2013.
MICHAEL HAYDEN General Michael Hayden is a Principal at The Chertoff Group, a global security advisory firm that provides consulting, business development, and merger and acquisition advisory services for clients in the security, defense, and government services industries. General Hayden served as the Director of the CIA from 2006 to 2009. Prior to his role at the CIA, General Hayden was the country’s first Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence and was the highest ranking intelligence officer in the armed forces. Additionally, he served as Director of the National Security Agency, Commander of the Air Intelligence Agency, Director of the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center, and Chief of the Central Security Service.
DAVID HEYMAN David F. Heyman recently stepped down after five years as Assistant Secretary of Policy for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). At DHS, he was part of the senior management team, with responsibilities in policy development, risk analysis, and strategic planning across the Department’s counterterrorism, border security, immigration, cybersecurity, and disaster resilience missions. Mr. Heyman was the chief architect of the nation’s first ever and second Quadrennial Homeland Security Reviews (QHSR). He has worked in the White House, the U.S. Department of Energy, and as a systems software engineer deploying industrial automation, robotics, and supply-chain management systems for Fortune 100 companies.
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Ambassador Christopher R. Hill is the Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at The University of Denver. He is a former career diplomat, a four-time ambassador, whose last post was as Ambassador to Iraq, April 2009 until August 2010. Hill served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2005 to 2009, during which he was also the head of the U.S. delegation to the Six Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue. Earlier, he was the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. Previously he served as U.S. Ambassador to Poland (2000-2004), Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia (1996-1999) and Special Envoy to Kosovo (1998-1999).
LAURA HOLGATE Laura S.H. Holgate joined the office of the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Coordinator at the National Security Council in 2009 as the Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism and Threat Reduction. In this role, she oversees and coordinates the development of national policies and programs to reduce global threats from nuclear, biological, and chemical
weapons; detect, identify, secure, and eliminate nuclear materials; prevent malicious use of biotechnology; and secure the civilian nuclear fuel cycle.
CHARLES JACOBY General Charles H. Jacoby, Jr. is the Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command, headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. A 1978 West Point graduate, he holds an M.A. in History from the University of Michigan. He has commanded at the platoon, company,
battalion, joint task force, corps, and U.S. Army Alaska levels, as well as being the
Commanding General, Multi-National Corps-Iraq, and Deputy Commanding General, Combined Joint Task Force-76 and Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, Afghanistan. Prior to his current assignment, General Jacoby was Director, Strategic Plans and Policy (J5), The Joint Staff, Pentagon.
JALIL JILANI Prior to his appointment as
Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States,
Ambassador Jilani served as Foreign Secretary of Pakistan. He is a career diplomat and has also served as Ambassador to Belgium and the European Union, and as High Commissioner to Australia. Ambassador Jilani has a Law Degree and a Master’s in Defense and Strategic Studies. In his professional life, he has specialized in South Asian affairs and remained Director India, Deputy High Commissioner to New Delhi and Director General South Asia and SAARC. He also served as the Government’s Spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Secretariat. His other overseas assignments include Jeddah and London.
JEH JOHNSON Jeh Charles Johnson was sworn in on December 23, 2013 as the fourth Secretary of Homeland Security. Prior to joining DHS, Secretary Johnson served as General Counsel for the Department of Defense, where he was part of the senior management team and led the more than 10,000 military and civilian lawyers across the Department. As General Counsel, Secretary Johnson oversaw the development of the legal aspects of many of our nation’s counterterrorism policies. Secretary Johnson’s career has included extensive service in national security, law enforcement, and as an attorney in private corporate law practice.
TINA K AIDANOW Tina Kaidanow assumed her current position as Ambassador-at-Large and U.S. Department of State Coordinator for
Counterterrorism in February 2014. Previously she served as Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul from September 2012 to October 2013. From 2009-2012, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, and the Caucasus, and then as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. From 2006-2009, Ambassador Kaidanow was the Chief of Mission and later the first U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo. She served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2003-2006.
RICHARD LEDGETT Mr. Richard Ledgett serves as the Deputy Director and senior civilian leader of the National Security Agency. In this capacity he acts as the Agency’s chief operating officer,
responsible for guiding and directing studies, operations, and policy. He led the NSA Media Leaks Task Force from June 2013 to January 2014, and was responsible for integrating and overseeing the totality of NSA’s efforts surrounding the unauthorized
disclosures of classified information by a former NSA affiliate. Mr. Ledgett has an undergraduate degree in psychology and a graduate degree in strategic intelligence. He has taken additional graduate coursework in engineering, computer science, and business, and served as adjunct faculty at both the National Cryptologic School and the Joint Military Intelligence College.
MICHAEL LEITER Michael Leiter is the Head of Global Government & Commercial Cyber at Palantir
Technologies, where he is responsible for strategy, business development, and operations.
Immediately prior he was the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center under Presidents Bush and Obama. Mr. Leiter previously served in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, with the Robb-Silberman WMD Commission, the U.S. Justice Department, and the U.S. Navy flying EA-6B Prowlers. Mr. Leiter received a J.D. from Harvard and subsequently clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court. He serves as NBC News’ National Security, Counterterrorism, and Cyber Analyst, and is on numerous boards and advisory panels to include the RAND Corporation’s Board of Trustees and the National Security Agency’s Advisory Board.
ROBERT LITT Robert Litt was confirmed by
unanimous consent by the Senate to serve as the second General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on June 25, 2009. Before joining the ODNI, Mr. Litt was a partner at the law firm of Arnold and Porter, LLP. He served as a member of the governing body of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section and a member of the Advisory Committee to the Standing Committee on Law and National Security. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Litt worked at the Department of Justice; he handled FISA applications, covert action reviews, and other national security matters.
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DOUGLAS LUTE In August 2013, Douglas E. Lute was sworn in as the
Ambassador of the United States to the NATO. From 2007 to 2013, Lute served at the White House under Presidents Bush and Obama, first as the Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, and more recently as the Deputy Assistant to the President focusing on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. In 2010, Lute retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant General after 35 years on active duty. He served multiple tours in NATO commands including duty in Germany during the Cold War and commanding U.S. forces in Kosovo.
JAMES MATTIS A Marine infantry officer for 40 years, General Jim Mattis retired in 2013 as Commander, U.S. Central Command. He is now a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
MICHAEL MCCAUL
Congressman Michael T. McCaul, who is currently serving his fifth term representing Texas’ 10th Congressional District, chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security. The Committee oversees the Department of Homeland Security in order to ensure it is able to carry out its core mission of protecting the American people from terrorist attacks. As Chairman, McCaul has focused on the threat of international and domestic terrorism, border security, cyber security, airport security, and fixing management problems within DHS in order to save taxpayer dollars and improve efficiency. Prior to Congress, Chairman McCaul served as a federal counterterrorism
prosecutor, led a Joint Terrorism Task Force, and served as Texas’ Deputy Attorney General.
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN John McLaughlin is the Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He served as Acting Director of Central Intelligence from July to September 2004 and as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from October 2000 to July 2004. He was a U.S. Army Officer in the 1960s, with service in Vietnam. He is the recipient of the National Security Medal and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves on the Board of Trustees at the Aerospace Corporation and at the Noblis Corporation. He chairs the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation, which supports CIA families who have lost a parent in the line of duty.
DAWN MEYERRIECKS Dawn C. Meyerriecks was appointed CIA Deputy Director for Science and Technology June 2013. Prior to this appointment, she served as the Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Acquisition, Technology & Facilities (2006-2009). Ms. Meyerriecks was an independent consultant providing senior leadership business and technology consulting direction to government and commercial clients. She has served on a number of government and commercial advisory boards. Ms. Meyerriecks earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering with a double major in Business from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Loyola Marymount University.
ASHOK MIRPURI Ashok Mirpuri took up his appointment as
Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States of America in July 2012. He served as Ambassador to Indonesia from 2006 to 2012, High Commissioner
to Malaysia from 2002 to 2006 and High Commissioner to Australia from 2000 to 2002. Ambassador Mirpuri’s assignments reflect a deep interest in Asia-Pacific developments and Singapore’s close relationship with its
neighboring countries. He had previously served as Director of Policy Planning & Analysis (Southeast Asia) for the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as a
secondment to Shell International in the United Kingdom as Corporate Advisor (Asia-Pacific) to Shell’s Committee of Managing Directors.
LISA MONACO Lisa Monaco assumed the duties of the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and Deputy National Security Advisor on March 8, 2013. She advises the President on all aspects of
counterterrorism policy and strategy as well as the coordination of all homeland security-related activities throughout the Executive Branch. Previously, Monaco served as Assistant Attorney General for National Security from July 1, 2011 to March 8, 2013. Her previous assignment was as the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General. Prior to joining the Deputy Attorney General’s office, Monaco was the chief of staff to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller. Monaco also served as special counsel to Director Mueller. Monaco initially joined the FBI on detail from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
ROBERT MUELLER Robert S. Mueller, III is a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP in Washington, D.C. From 2001 to 2013, he was the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Mueller also served as the Acting Deputy Attorney General, United States Attorney for the Northern District of California; Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division; and Assistant United States Attorney. He is the Executive-in-Residence for Georgetown University,
Consulting Professor at Stanford University’s Law School, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Arthur and Frank Payne Distinguished Lecturer.
JOHN NEGROPONTE John D. Negroponte has been Vice Chairman of McLarty Associates, a strategic consulting firm, since 2009. He is also a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University. He is Chairman of the Council of the Americas/ Americas Society and of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), as well as Co-Chair of the US-Philippines Society. He is a member of the Secretary of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. Prior to 2009,
Ambassador Negroponte served a total of 44 years in government in positions at the State Department, the White House and as the first Director of National Intelligence. He has been Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, Iraq, and the United Nations.
RAY ODIERNO General Raymond T. Odierno is the 38th Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. A native of Rockaway, New Jersey, he has commanded units at every echelon, from platoon to theater, with duty in Germany, Albania, Kuwait, Iraq, and the United States during more than 37 years of service. General Odierno holds a Bachelor of Science degree in
Engineering from West Point and a Master’s degree in Nuclear Effects Engineering from N.C. State University. He is a graduate of the Army War College and holds a Master’s degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. He has numerous military awards and decorations to include the Secretary of State Distinguished Service Medal and Orders of Military Merit from Brazil, Colombia, Romania, and Italy.
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MATT OLSEN The Honorable Matthew G. Olsen was sworn in as the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) in August 2011, upon his confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Prior to joining NCTC, Mr. Olsen served as the General Counsel for the National Security Agency. Mr. Olsen previously served in the Department of Justice in a variety of leadership roles, including as Special Counselor to the Attorney General and in the National Security Division where he was responsible for the management of the Department’s intelligence operations and oversight. He also served as a federal prosecutor for ten years in the District of Columbia. Mr. Olsen graduated from Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia.
ERIC OLSON Eric T. Olson retired from the United States Navy in 2011 as a four-star Admiral after 38 years of service. He served in special operations units throughout his career. Admiral Olson’s career culminated as the head of the United States Special Operations Command, where he was responsible for the mission readiness of all Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps special operations forces. In this capacity, he led over 60,000 people and managed an annual budget of over ten billion dollars. Admiral Olson is now an independent national security consultant who supports a wide range of private and public organizations.
JOHN PISTOLE John S. Pistole was sworn in as TSA’s fifth Administrator in July 2010. He oversees management of a 60,000-strong workforce, the security operations of more than 450 federalized airports throughout the U.S., the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS), and the security for highways, railroads, ports,
mass transit systems and pipelines. Under his leadership, TSA will continue to grow as a risk-based, intelligence-driven counterterrorism agency dedicated to protecting our
transportation systems. Pistole came to TSA as a 26-year veteran of the FBI with extensive national security and counterterrorism experience. In 2004, Pistole was named Deputy Director for the FBI.
ARATI PRABHAK AR Dr. Arati Prabhakar is the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Her career began as a Congressional Fellow at the Office of Technology Assessment. From 1986 to 1993 she was a DARPA Program Manager and Office Director. In 1993, President Clinton appointed her Director of the National Institute of Technology. In 1997, she became CTO and Senior VP at Raychem, Vice President, and President of Interval Research. From 2001 to 2011, she was a partner with U.S. Venture Partners. Arati received her Ph.D. in applied physics and Master’s in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and her Bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University.
JOHN RIZZO John Rizzo was a CIA lawyer for 34 years (1976-2009), serving under seven presidents and 11 CIA directors. He was the Agency’s chief legal advisor for seven of the first eight years after t
