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Our expanding network of national security experts and contributors includes top thinkers from the intelligence, military, academic and business sectors. Their collective contributions to the security conversation will lead to tomorrow’s solutions.

General Michael Hayden

Former Director, CIA and NSA

Gen. David Petraeus

Former Director of the CIA

General Jack Keane

Former Vice Chief of Staff, United States Army

James R. Clapper

Former U.S. Director of National Intelligence

Sir Alex Younger

Former Chief of British Secret Intelligence (MI6)

Michael Chertoff

Former Secretary of Homeland Security

Sir John Sawers

Former Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

General Keith Alexander

Former Director, National Security Agency

General John R. Allen

Former Commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan

Patrick Calvar

Former Director General of the French Security Service, the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI)

Michael Vickers

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Nick Warner

Former Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence (ONI) Australia

General Stanley McChrystal

Former Commander, ISAF

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Former President of Estonia

John McLaughlin

Former Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency

Tom Bossert

Former Homeland Security Advisor to the President

Tom Ridge

Former Secretary of Homeland Security

Kenneth L. Wainstein

Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

Dick Fadden

Former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada

Admiral Eric T. Olson

Former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command

Robert Cardillo

Former Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Robert Work

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense

James N. Miller

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Michele Flournoy

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Martin Petersen

Former Acting Executive Director, CIA

Charlie Allen

Former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

David S. Cohen

Former Cipher Brief Expert and Deputy Director, CIA

Robert P. Ashley

Former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

Vincent Stewart

Former Director Defense Intelligence Agency

Admiral James 'Sandy' Winnefeld

Former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Saxby Chambliss

Former U.S. Senator (R-GA)

Jane Harman

President and CEO, Wilson Center

Admiral James Stavridis

Former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO

Raymond Kelly

Former Police Commissioner, City of New York

Robert Hannigan

Former Director, GCHQ

Conrad Prince

Former Director General for Operations and Deputy Director of GCHQ

Sir David Omand GCB

Former Director of GCHQ (the UK Sigint Agency)

Chris Inglis

Former Cipher Brief Expert / US National Cyber Director

Liesl Jordan

Rick Ledgett

Former Deputy Director, National Security Agency

Alex Creswell

Former Member British Foreign Service

Deborah Lee James

Former Secretary of the United States Air Force

Gen. Philip M. Breedlove

Former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO

Bill Evanina

Director, National Counterintelligence and Security Center

Michael Leiter

Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center

Peter Leahy

Former Chief of the Australian Army

Nicholas J. Rasmussen

Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center

Ellen McCarthy

Former Asst. Secretary of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research

Tim Willasey-Wilsey

Former Senior Member of the British Foreign Office

Antony Blinken

FORMER Cipher Brief Expert / U.S. Secretary of State

Benjamin Powell

Co-Chair, Cybersecurity, Privacy and Communications Practice, Wilmer Hale

Lieutenant General Kevin McLaughlin

Former Deputy Director, U.S. Cyber Command

Katharina McFarland

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition

Mary Beth Long

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

Glenn Gerstell

Former General Counsel National Security Agency

Matt Hayden

Former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk and Resilience Policy

Neil Wiley

Former Principal Executive, ODNI

John Edwards

Former Deputy Chief Operating Officer, CIA

Stewart Baker

Former General Counsel of the National Security Agency

Gilman Louie

CEO & Chairman, LookingGlass Cyber Solutions

Rear Adm. (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Senior Director at the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Raj De

Former General Counsel, National Security Agency

Admiral Jonathan Greenert

Former Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy

Francis X. Taylor

Former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, DHS

Andy Weber

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs

Vice Admiral Mike LeFever

Former Director of Strategic Operational Planning, National Counterterrorism Center.

Kevin Donegan

Former Commander of US 5th Fleet, the 32 Nation Combined Maritime Forces, and Director of OPS at CENTCOM

Doug Wise

Former Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

Scott Howell

Former Commander, Joint Special Operations Command

Mary Jackson

Vice Admiral (Ret), US Navy

David R. Shedd

Former Acting Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

Jonathan M. Winer

Former US Special Envoy to Libya

Joseph DeTrani

Former Director of the National Counterproliferation Center

Richard Boucher

Former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia

Marcel Lettre

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

Former Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy

Deborah Jones

Ambassador of the United States of America, Retired

Gary Grappo

Former U.S. Ambassador to Oman

Jim Danoy

Former Defense Intelligence Executive

April Doss

Associate General Counsel for Intelligence Law, NSA

Cynthia Saddy

Former Senior Executive with the Central  Intelligence Agency

Husain Haqqani

Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States

Michael Sulick

Former Director, CIA National Clandestine Service

John Bennett

Former Director, CIA National Clandestine Service

Jack Devine

Former Acting Director, CIA National Clandestine Service

Norman T. Roule

Former National Intelligence Manager for Iran, ODNI

John Nixon

Former Senior Leadership Analyst, CIA

Rob Bassett Cross

CEO and Founder of Adarga

Lieutenant General Michael Groen (US Marine Corps, Ret.)

Former Director, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center

Carol Rollie Flynn

Former Associate Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center

Rob Dannenberg

Former Head of Security, Goldman Sachs

Michael Nagata

Former Commander of US Special Operations Command-Central

Gwyn Armfield

Brigadier General, USAF, Retired

Nick Fishwick

Former Senior Member of the British Foreign Office

Levi West

Dr. Levi West is the Director of Terrorism Studies at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security at Charles Sturt University.

Beth Sanner

Former Deputy Director for National Intelligence, ODNI

Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, US Army (Ret.)

Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs

Karen Schaefer

Former Chief of Operations, Directorate of Science and Technology, CIA

Robert J. Eatinger, Jr.

Former Senior Deputy General Counsel, CIA

Mark Kelton

Former Senior Executive Service Officer, CIA

Sean Corbett

Former Air Vice Marshall, UK Royal Air Force

John Pereira

Former CIA Director for Support

Mark Cooter

Former Colonel, U.S. Air Force

Alec Bierbauer

Former CIA Officer, Directorate of Operations

Robert Richer

Former Associate Deputy Director for Operations, CIA

Leslie Ireland

Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Intelligence and Analysis

Stephanie Douglas

Former Executive Assistant Director (EAD), National Security Branch, FBI

Elaine Lammert

Former Deputy General Counsel, FBI

Alison P. Bouwmeester

Former Senior Leader, Directorate of Operations, CIA

Farah Pandith

Former Special Representative to Muslim Communities, U.S. Department of State

Sean Roche

Former Associate Deputy Director of CIA for Science & Technology, Digital Innovation

Sonya Seunghye Lim

Former Chief of Station, CIA

Carmen Medina

Former CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence

Stephanie Bellistri

Former Senior CIA Officer, Directorate of Operations, CIA

Carmen Landa Middleton

Former Deputy Executive Director, CIA

Kenneth Pollack

Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Mary Margaret Graham

Former U.S. Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Collection

Joseph W. Augustyn

Former Member, CIA's Senior Intelligence Service

Kate Charlet

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy, Department of Defense

Laura Thomas

Former Case Officer- CIA

John Sipher

Former Member, CIA's Senior Intelligence Service

Brett Davis

Partner, New North Ventures

Paul Kolbe

Former Director, The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center

David Bridges

Senior Geopolitical and Security Advisor at Fidelity Management and Research Company

John D. Tullius

Former National Intelligence Chair at the Naval Postgraduate School

Alasdair Gordon

Former Senior National Security Officer, Australian Government

Fran Moore

Former Director of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency

Joanne Isham

Former Deputy Director National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Kristin Wood

Former Deputy Director, Innovation & Technology Group, Open Source Center, CIA

Chris Savos

Former Deputy Director of the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center, CIA

Steven L. Hall

Former Member, CIA's Senior Intelligence Service

Rhea Siers

Former Deputy Associate Director for Policy, National Security Agency

Bill Harlow

Senior Editor, Under/Cover, The Cipher Brief

Bruce Hoffman

Professor, Georgetown University

Marc Polymeropoulos

Former CIA Senior Intelligence Service (SIS) Officer

Kevin Hulbert

Former CIA Chief of Station

Karyn Eliot

Former Senior Executive CIA

Todd Rosenblum

Former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs

Rob Lively

Command Sergeants Major (Ret) U.S. Army Special Operations

Michael Vigil

Former Chief of International Operations, DEA

Steven Ward

Former Senior Analyst, CIA

Robert Grenier

Former Director, CIA Counterterrorism Center

Daniel Markey

Senior Research Professor and Academic Director of the Global Policy Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

James Lewis

Senior Vice President and Program Director, CSIS

Emile Nakhleh

Former Member, CIA's Senior Intelligence Service

Daniel Hoffman

Former Senior CIA Officer

Alex Bolling

Former CIA Chief of Station

Michael Allen

Former Majority Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Nate Jones

Former Director for Counterterrorism, National Security Council

Bradley Fernandez

Former Member, CIA's National Clandestine Service

Chris Fussell

Former U.S. Navy SEAL

Michael Fisher

Former Chief, U.S. Border Patrol

Kevin Buckley

Former Member CIA's Senior Intelligence Service

Rodney Faraon

Partner & Chief Creative Officer, Martin+Crumpton Group

Jeanine Hayden

Member of the Board of Governors, National Military Family Association

Ali Soufan

Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent

John Perren

Former Assistant Director, Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, FBI

Matt Devost

Former Special Advisor, U.S. Department of Defense

Mitch Silber

Former Director of Analysis, NYPD

William Green

Former CIA Directorate of Operations

Gordon Chang

Author, The Coming Collapse of China

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