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NSI is honored that the following individuals have agreed to serve as a board of advisors to the Institute. They bring decades of experience in public service in a wide range of federal counterterrorism, defense, and intelligence agencies.  They include former officials from the administrations of several presidents, as well as the U.S. Congress, the federal judiciary, media, and academia.
Gen. Keith Alexander (Ret.)
Former Director, NSA
Commander, USCYBERCOM
Michael Allen
Managing Director
Beacon Global
Dmitri Alperovitch
Co-Founder and Chairman
Silverado Policy Accelerator
Chuck Alsup
Former President
INSA
Vishal Amin
Head of Intellectual Property Policy
Intel Corporation
Judy Ansley
Former Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor
National Security Council
Stewart Baker
Principal
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Jeremy Bash
Founder and Managing Director
Beacon Global
John B. Bellinger III
Partner
Arnold & Porter
Teresa Carlson
President
General Catalyst
Gus Coldebella
General Partner
True Ventures
Cindy Courville
First U.S. Ambassador to the African Union
Sada Cumber
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference
Contributor, The SCIF
Ambassador (Ret.) Kelley E. Currie
Founding Partner
Kilo Alpha Strategies
Raj De
Global Management Committee Member
Mayer Brown
John Demers
Corporate Secretary
The Boeing Company
Donald R. Dixon
Board of Directors
IronNet Security
William Evanina
Founder and CEO
The Evanina Group
Alice Fisher
Partner
Latham & Watkins
Christopher Ford
Former Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation
Department of State
Lenora Peters Gant
Former Senior National Intelligence Officer
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Greg Garcia
Executive Director for Cybersecurity
Health Sector Coordinating Council
Gen. Karen Gibson (Ret.)
Keynote Speaker, National Security and Cyber SME, Executive Leader
Hyalite Strategy Group
Sue Gordon
Strategic Advisor
Insight Partners
General Michael Hayden (Ret.)
Former Director
Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency
William J. Haynes
Former Executive Vice President
CSRA
Suzanne Wilson Heckenberg
President
Intelligence and National Security Alliance and Foundation (INSA)
Niloofar Howe
Senior Operating Partner
Energy Impact Partners
Aaron Hughes
Albertsons Companies
Frank R. Jimenez
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Raytheon Technologies Corporation
Sean Joyce
Former Deputy Director
Federal Bureau of Investigations
David Kris
Founder
Culper Partners
Jim Langevin
Former Congressman, D-RI
U.S. House of Representatives
David Lashway
Partner
Sidley Austin LLP
Richard H. Ledgett, Jr.
Independent Director
M&T Bank
Paul Lettow
Senior Fellow
American Enterprise Institute
Mike LeFever
Chief Executive Officer
Concentric Advisors
Jessie K. Liu
Former U.S. Attorney for DC
Department of Justice
Letitia A. Long
Former Director
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Gilman Louie
Chief Executive Officer
America's Frontier Fund
Sigal Mandelker
General Partner
Ribbit Capital
John Martinez
Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
Parsons Corporation
Ellen E. McCarthy
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research
US Department of State
Mike McConnell
Former Director of National Intelligence
Brent McIntosh
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Citi
Carmen Medina
Former Deputy Director for Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Dawn Meyerriecks
Former Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Central Intelligence Agency
Rear Admiral Alex Miller (Ret.)
Heather Molino
Principal
CornerStone
John Norton Moore
former Walter L. Brown Professor of Law & Director
Center for National Security Law, UVA
Lester Munson
Practice Co-Head, Principal
BRG Group
Michael B. Mukasey
Former U.S. Attorney General
Glenn Nye III
President & CEO
Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress
Julia Nesheiwat
Former Homeland Security Advisor
National Security Council
Farah Pandith
First Ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities
Leon E. Panetta
Former Secretary of Defense
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Margaret Peterlin
Former Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
Yleem Poblete
Member, Board of Advisors; Co-Founder
The American Jewish International Relations Institute; Poblete Analysis Group
Benjamin Powell
Former General Counsel
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Alan Charles Raul
Sidley Austin LLP Privacy and Cybersecurity Partner
Former Vice Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
Former Associate Counsel to the President
Sidley Austin LLP
Philip R. Reitinger
President & CEO
Global Cyber Alliance
Harvey Rishikof
Chair of the Advisory Committee
ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security
Kristi Rogers
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Principal to Principal
Mike Rogers
Former Chairman
U.S. House Intelligence Committee
Paul Rosenzweig
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Patrick Rowan
Partner
McGuireWoods LLP
Dr. Nadia Schadlow
Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy
Ted Schlein
General Partner
Kleiner Perkins
Teresa Shea
President
Oplnet, LLC
Kristen Silverberg
Executive Vice President of Policy
Business Roundtable
Michael Steed
Founder and Managing Partner
Paladin Capital Group
Frances Townsend
Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Executive Office of the President of the United States
Michelle Van Cleave
Former National Counterintelligence Executive
Mike Vickers
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Department of Defense
Nicole Washington
Head of Management Consulting
Defense, Intel & Space Business Unit, CGI Federal
Linton Wells II
Executive Advisor
C4I & Cyber Center
Kathryn Wheelbarger
Vice President for Global Support - Government Affairs
Lockheed Martin
Vice Admiral TJ White (Ret.)
Former Commander
Fleet Cyber Command, US Tenth Fleet, and Navy Space Command
Joe Whitley
Former General Counsel
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Benjamin Wittes
Editor-in-Chief
Lawfare
Paul Wolfowitz
Visiting Scholar
American Enterprise Institute
Julie Myers Wood
Chief Executive Officer
Guidepost Solutions
Alberto Yépez
Co-Founder and Managing Director
ForgePoint Capital
Roger Zakheim
Washington Director
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute
Juan Zarate
Senior Advisor
CSIS
Amy Zegart
Senior Fellow
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
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