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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

James R. Clapper

Former U.S. Director of National Intelligence

Michael Vickers

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Michael Chertoff

Former Secretary of Homeland Security

Admiral Eric T. Olson

Former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command

LIsa Monaco

Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

John McLaughlin

Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency

Robert Work

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense

General Keith Alexander

Former Director, National Security Agency

Jane Harman

President and CEO, Wilson Center

Stanley McChrystal

Former Commander, ISAF

Michele Flournoy

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Charlie Allen

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

Admiral James 'Sandy' Winnefeld

Former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Admiral James Stavridis

Former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO

Rick Ledgett

Former Deputy Director, National Security Agency

Deborah Lee James

Former Secretary of the United States Air Force

Chris Inglis

Former Deputy Director, National Security Agency

General Philip M. Breedlove

Former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO

Jonathan Greenert

Former Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy

Lieutenant General Kevin McLaughlin

Former Deputy Director, U.S. Cyber Command

Vice Admiral Mike LeFever

Former Director of Strategic Operational Planning, National Counterterrorism Center.

Mary Beth Long

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

Antony Blinken

Former Deputy Secretary of State

Andy Weber

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

Steven Ward

Former Senior Analyst, CIA

Gary Grappo

Former U.S. Ambassador to Oman

David Shedd

Former Acting Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

Doug Wise

Former Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

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

Richard Boucher

Former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia

Husain Haqqani

Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States

John Nixon

Former Senior Leadership Analyst, CIA

Michael Sulick

Former Director, CIA National Clandestine Service

John Bennett

Former Director, CIA National Clandestine Service

Frank Archibald

Former Director, CIA National Clandestine Service

Carol Rollie Flynn

Former Associate Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center

Robert Dannenberg

Former Head of Security, Goldman Sachs

Joseph DeTrani

Former Director of the National Counterproliferation Center

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

John Pereira

Former CIA Director for Support

Mark Kelton

Former Deputy Director for Counterintelligence, CIA National Clandestine Service

Todd Rosenblum

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

Norman T. Roule

Former National Intelligence Manager for Iran, ODNI

Elaine Lammert

Former Deputy General Counsel, FBI

James Jeffrey

Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey

Leslie Ireland

Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Intelligence and Analysis

Robert Richer

Former Associate Deputy Director for Operations, CIA

Carmen Medina

Former CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence

Farah Pandith

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

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

Carmen Middleton

Former Deputy Executive Director, CIA

Kristin Wood

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

Steven L. Hall

Former Member, CIA's Senior Intelligence Service

Alex Bolling

Former CIA Chief of Station

Daniel Hoffman

Former CIA Chief of Station

Kevin Hulbert

Former CIA Chief of Station

Rhea Siers

Former Deputy Associate Director for Policy, National Security Agency

Robert Grenier

Former Director, CIA Counterterrorism Center

Daniel Markey

Academic Director, Global Policy Program, Johns Hopkins SAIS

Gordon Chang

Author, The Coming Collapse of China

James Lewis

Senior Vice President and Program Director, CSIS

Michael Vigil

Former Chief of International Operations, DEA

Emile Nakhleh

Former Member, CIA`s Senior Intelligence Service

Michael Allen

Former Majority Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

John Carlin

Former Assistant Attorney General for National Security

Saxby Chambliss

Former U.S. Senator (R-GA)

David S. Cohen

Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency

Raj De

Former General Counsel, National Security Agency

Matt Devost

Former Special Advisor, U.S. Department of Defense

Rodney Faraon

Partner, Crumpton Group

Michael Fisher

Former Chief, U.S. Border Patrol

Chris Fussell

Former U.S. Navy SEAL

Mary Margaret Graham

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

Jeanine Hayden

Member of the Board of Governors, National Military Family Association

Bruce Hoffman

Professor, Georgetown University

Raymond Kelly

Former Police Commissioner, City of New York

Michael Leiter

Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center

Marcel Lettre

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Gilman Louie

Founder and Former CEO, In-Q-Tel

Fran Moore

Former Director of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency

Matthew Olsen

Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center

John Perren

Former Assistant Director, Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, FBI

Mitch Silber

Former Director of Analysis, NYPD

Ali Soufan

Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent

Kenneth L. Wainstein

Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism