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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

General Jack Keane

Former Vice Chief of Staff, United States Army

Gen. David H. Petraeus

Former Director of the CIA

Michael Vickers

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

James R. Clapper

Former U.S. Director of National Intelligence

Michael Chertoff

Former Secretary of Homeland Security

General Keith Alexander

Former Director, National Security Agency

Stanley McChrystal

Former Commander, ISAF

Patrick Calvar

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

John McLaughlin

Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency

Tom Ridge

Former Secretary of Homeland Security

Lisa Monaco

Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

Kenneth L. Wainstein

Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

Admiral Eric T. Olson

Former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command

Robert Work

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense

Michele Flournoy

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Charlie Allen

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

David S. Cohen

Former Deputy Director, Central 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

David Omand

Former Director of GCHQ (the UK Sigint Agency)

Robert Hannigan

Former Director, GCHQ

Conrad Prince

Former Director General for Operations and Deputy Director of GCHQ

Chris Inglis

Former Deputy Director, National Security Agency

Rick Ledgett

Former Deputy Director, National Security Agency

Deborah Lee James

Former Secretary of the United States Air Force

General Philip M. Breedlove

Former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO

John Carlin

Former Assistant Attorney General for National Security

Michael Leiter

Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center

Matthew Olsen

Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center

Nicholas Rasmussen

Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center

Antony Blinken

Former Deputy Secretary of State

Lieutenant General Kevin McLaughlin

Former Deputy Director, U.S. Cyber Command

Mary Beth Long

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

Raj De

Former General Counsel, National Security Agency

Stewart Baker

Former General Counsel of the National Security Agency

Jonathan Greenert

Former Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy

Francis 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.

Vice Admiral 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

David Shedd

Former Acting Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

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

Gary Grappo

Former U.S. Ambassador to Oman

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

Joseph DeTrani

Former Director of the National Counterproliferation Center

Frank Archibald

Former Director, CIA National Clandestine Service

John Nixon

Former Senior Leadership Analyst, CIA

Carol Rollie Flynn

Former Associate Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center

Robert Dannenberg

Former Head of Security, Goldman Sachs

Nick Fishwick

Former Senior Member of the British Foreign Office

Robert J. Eatinger, Jr.

Former Senior Deputy General Counsel, CIA

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Guy Swan III

Former Commander, U.S. Army North

Mark Kelton

Former Deputy Director for Counterintelligence, CIA National Clandestine Service

John Pereira

Former CIA Director for Support

Norman T. Roule

Former National Intelligence Manager for Iran, ODNI

Robert Richer

Former Associate Deputy Director for Operations, CIA

James Jeffrey

Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey

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

Farah Pandith

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

Carmen Medina

Former CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence

Carmen Middleton

Former Deputy Executive Director, CIA

Mary Margaret Graham

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

Kenneth Pollack

Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Kate Charlet

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

John Sipher

Former Member, CIA`s Senior Intelligence Service

Paul Kolbe

Former Member, CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service

Alasdair Gordon

Former Senior National Security Officer, Australian Government

Fran Moore

Former Director of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency

Kristin Wood

Former Deputy Director, Innovation & Technology Group, Open Source 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

Alex Bolling

Former CIA Chief of Station

Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt

Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs

Bruce Hoffman

Professor, Georgetown University

Kevin Hulbert

Former CIA Chief of Station

Daniel Hoffman

Former CIA Chief of Station

Todd Rosenblum

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

Steven Ward

Former Senior Analyst, CIA

Robert Grenier

Former Director, CIA Counterterrorism Center

Daniel Markey

Academic Director, Global Policy Program, Johns Hopkins SAIS

James Lewis

Senior Vice President and Program Director, CSIS

Emile Nakhleh

Former Member, CIA`s Senior Intelligence Service

Michael Allen

Former Majority Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Nate Jones

Former Director for Counterterrorism, National Security Council

Chris Fussell

Former U.S. Navy SEAL

Michael Fisher

Former Chief, U.S. Border Patrol

Rodney Faraon

Partner, Crumpton Group

Jeanine Hayden

Member of the Board of Governors, National Military Family Association

Gilman Louie

Founder and Former CEO, In-Q-Tel

Ali Soufan

Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent

John Perren

Former Assistant Director, Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, FBI

Mitch Silber

Former Director of Analysis, NYPD

David Priess

Former Daily Intelligence Briefer, CIA

Gordon Chang

Author, The Coming Collapse of China

Michael Vigil

Former Chief of International Operations, DEA

Matt Devost

Former Special Advisor, U.S. Department of Defense