Advisory Committee
Chair: Lala Qadir, Senior Director for Technology Security and AI Policy, Microsoft, Former Chief of Staff, National Security Division, White House Office of Science and Technology. Former Associate Counsel, Covington & Burling, and George Washington Law School Professorial Lecturer, Artificial Intelligence: Law and Policy.
Leonard Bailey, Former Special Counsel for National Security, Criminal Division, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, U.S. Department of Justice. Former Special Counsel and Special Investigative Counsel for DOJ’s Inspector General.
Yvette Bourcicot, Former Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
Carrie Cordero, General Counsel, Center for a New American Security, former Counsel to the DOJ Assistant Attorney General for National Security and Senior Associate General Counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Former director of national security studies at Georgetown Law.
Courtney Elwood, Headland Consulting LLC; Former General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency and former associate counsel to the president, deputy counsel to the vice president, and deputy chief of staff and counselor to the attorney general. Former partner, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick and former clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Founder and Academic Director, Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law; Distinguished Research Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Nancy Fortenberry, Former General Counsel,President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
Grant Harris, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Industry and Analysis.
Darrin Hostetler, Chief Compliance Officer, The Boeing Company.
Margaret K. Hu, Professor of Law and Director, Digital Democracy Lab, William & Mary Law School; Research Affiliate, Institute for Computation and Data Sciences, Penn State University. Former Special Policy Counsel, Office of the Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Discrimination, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice; Attorney General’s Honors Program.
Sarah Istel, Deputy General Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and former Counsel, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Former Senior Associate, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Jamil Jaffer, Founder and Executive Director, National Security Institute; Assistant Professor of Law and Director, National Security Law & Policy Program, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University; Vice President for Strategy & Business Development, IronNet Cybersecurity. Former Chief Counsel/Senior Advisor, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Senior Counsel, House Intelligence Committee; Associate Counsel to the President; Counsel to the Assistant AG for National Security at DOJ.
Darin Johnson, Associate Professor, Howard University School of Law; Senior Peace Fellow, Public International Law and Policy Group. Former Assistant General Counsel, Department of the Army; Captain, U.S. Army; Attorney-advisor, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State; Legal Advisor, U.S. Embassy to Iraq; Chief of Staff, Office of the Special Coordinator for Middle East Transitions, Department of State; Adjunct Professor and Lecturer, Georgetown University Law Center; Adjunct Lecturer, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University; Adjunct Lecturer, Washington College of Law, American University.
Amy Keating, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer Glean Technologies.
Jason Klitenic, Partner Holland & Knight, where he leads the firm's National Security practice. He previously served in senior positions in government, Former General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Deputy General Counsel Department of Homeland Security and Deputy Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice.
Glenn McKeown, VP, General Counsel, Secretary, Aerospace Corporation.
Jennifer O'Connor, Vice President and General Counsel, Harvard University
Raj Parekh, Chief of Corporate Enforcement, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security.
Sunita Patel, Senior Assistant General Counsel, Product Security, Micron; Former Deputy Assistant National Cyber Director for Technology Security, Office of the National Cyber Director. Former Chief Counsel, National Counterintelligence and Security Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Dakota Rudesill, Associate Professor of Law, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Scholar, teacher, and practitioner of national security law and policy, focusing on secrecy, legislation, use of force, and nuclear weapons. Has advised senior leaders in all three branches of the federal government, including on a presidential transition team, a presidential task force, in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), and a U.S. Senate committee professional staff.
Erik Swabb, Partner, Wilmer Hale
Alexandra Yestrumskas, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Investment Security, US Department of Treasury
Special Advisors to the Advisory Committee
Stewart Baker, Retired Partner, Steptoe & Johnson. Former Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; General Counsel, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction; and General Counsel, National Security Agency.
Spike Bowman, Distinguished Fellow, University of Virginia School of Law. Former Deputy Director, Office of National Counterintelligence Executive; Deputy General Counsel, National Security, FBI; and Chief, Intelligence Issues Group, National Security Branch.
Joel F. Brenner, Principal, Joel Brenner LLC and Senior Fellow, MIT Center for International Studies. Former National Counterintelligence Executive; Mission Manager, Counterintelligence, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; and Inspector General, National Security Agency.
Glenn Gerstell, Senior Adviser, CSIS, and former General Counsel, National Security Agency.
Susan Ginsburg, Co-founder and CEO, Criticality Sciences and Member, Department of Homeland Security’s Quadrennial Review Committee. Former: Principal, U.S. Civil Security, LLC; Fellow and head of Mobility and Security Program, Migration Policy Institute; and Senior Counsel, 9/11 Commission.
David Graham, Former: Distinguished Fellow, Center on National Security Law, University of Virginia School of Law; Executive Director, Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School; Judge Advocate, U.S. Army; and Director, Center for Law and Military Operations, JAG Legal Center and School.
Christine Healey, Former: General Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Counsel, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and consultant and senior counsel, FBI 9/11 Review Commission.
Adam Pearlman, Founder and Managing Director Lexpat Global Services, LLC
Jill Rhodes, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Option Care, Inc. Former: Deputy Chief of Staff, Director of National Intelligence; Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Education and Training; and attorney at DHS Office of the General Counsel and Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Paul Rosenzweig, founder, Red Branch Law & Consulting PLLC; Senior Editor, Journal of National Security Law. Former Acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security.
Scott Silliman, Former Deputy Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Military Commission Review; Director Emeritus, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security; Professor of the Practice of Law, Duke University School of Law. Former Judge Advocate, Air Force.
Kay Wakatake, Judge Advocate General, U.S. Army. Former Officer-In-Charge, Mannheim Law Center, Germany; Brigade Judge Advocate, Iraq.