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Homeland Security Policy Institute Names 2009 Senior Fellows
March 12, 2009—The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) today announced the appointment of its 2009 Senior Fellows class.
“The Senior Fellows are a highly distinguished group drawn from many disciplines that will contribute greatly to HSPI’s policy and research agenda,” said Frank Cilluffo, Director of HSPI. “Our 2009 Senior Fellows are well positioned to tackle the diverse and challenging set of issues currently facing our nation’s leaders.”
A selection committee including representation from HSPI’s Steering Committee, the 2008 class of Senior Fellows, and staff reviewed the unprecedented number of applications. The members of the 2009 class are drawn from government, academia, the non-profit and private sectors, with expertise in areas including counterterrorism, counter-radicalization, intelligence, homeland security budgeting, humanitarian assistance, crisis communications, the behavioral sciences, interagency coordination, critical infrastructure protection, public health, community preparedness, defense and counter-insurgency. Throughout the year, Fellows will participate in roundtable sessions with senior government officials, and collaborate to publish policy papers, including issue briefs that speak to the day’s most pressing homeland security challenges.
Members of this year’s class have already been active on multiple fronts. For example, HSPI Senior Fellow Michael Bopp developed and co-moderated an HSPI Policy & Research Forum on “Homeland Security Priorities for the 111th Congress,” featuring top staff from the congressional homeland security committees. HSPI Senior Fellow Seth Stodder published an HSPI issue brief titled “Hey Good Samaritans–Get a Lawyer!”
Senior fellows were selected based upon individual expertise, not their professional affiliation. They are not HSPI employees.
HSPI is a non-partisan “think and do” tank whose mission is to build bridges between theory and practice to advance homeland security through an interdisciplinary approach. By convening domestic and international policymakers and practitioners at all levels of government, the private and non-profit sectors, and academia, HSPI creates innovative strategies and solutions to current and future threats to the nation. For additional information about HSPI, please visit http://homelandsecurity.gwu.edu.
2009 HSPI Senior Fellows
Geneive Abdo
Foreign Policy Fellow
The Century Foundation
Michael Bopp
Partner
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Former Associate Director
Office of Management and Budget
Former Staff Director and Chief Counsel
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Michael Byrne
Senior Vice President
ICF International
Former Director
Office of National Capitol Region Coordination, Department of Homeland Security
Former Director, Fire Commissioner’
Fire Department City of New York
James Carafano
Senior Research Fellow, Defense and Homeland Security
The Heritage Foundation
Stephen Carmel
Senior Vice President
Maersk Line, Limited
John Cohen
Independent Consultant
Office of the Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Brandon D. Declet
Counsel
House Committee on Homeland Security
Michael Downing
Deputy Chief and Commanding Officer,
Counterterrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau
Los Angeles Police Department
Michael Edwards
Corporate Director, AF C3 & Cyber Programs
Northrop Grumman
Former Director of Operations
Air Force Combat Support Office
Colonel, U.S. Air Force (Ret.)
Megan Eggers
Associate Director, Office of WMD Terrorism
Department of State
Thomas Finan
Subcommittee Director and Counsel
House Committee on Homeland Security
Randall Fort
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research
Department of State
Jessica Herrera-Flanigan
Partner
Monument Policy Group
Former Staff Director and General Counsel
House Committee on Homeland Security
David Heyman
Director, Homeland Security Program
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Brian Kamoie
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
Department of Health & Human Services
Daniel Kimmage
Independent Consultant
Former Senior Correspondent/
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Jan Lane
Policy Advisor
Homeland Security Policy Institute
The George Washington University
Gordon Lederman
Director of Legal Affairs
Project on National Security Reform
Matthew Levitt
Director, Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis
Department of the Treasury
Ronald Marks
Senior Vice President for Government Relations
Oxford Analytica, Inc
Former Intelligence Counsel to
Former Senators Bob Dole and Trent Lott
Vahid Motevalli
Associate Professor
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
The George Washington University
John Noftsinger
Vice Provost
James Madison University
Jon Nowick
Instructor
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Former Leader of Analytic Red Cell
Department of Homeland Security
Barbara Porter
Chief of Staff to the President
The George Washington University
Magnus Ranstorp
Research Director
Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies
Swedish National Defence College
Joseph Rozek
Executive Director, Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Microsoft Corporation
Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Domestic Counterterrorism
Homeland Security Council
Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Gregory Saathoff
Executive Director
Critical Incident Analysis Group
University of Virginia
Tom Sanderson
Deputy Director, Transnational Threats
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Seth Stodder
President & CEO
Palindrome Strategies, LLC
Former Director of Policy and Planning
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security
David Trulio
Former Special Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary
Homeland Security Council
Allan Zenowitz
Former Executive Officer
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Full text of this HSPI Press Release including more information on HSPI's 2009 Senior Fellows, please visit: http://www.gwumc.edu/
