NSI is honored that the following individuals have agreed to serve as a board of advisors to the Institute. They bring decades of experience in public service in a wide range of federal counterterrorism, defense, and intelligence agencies. They include former officials from the administrations of several presidents, as well as the U.S. Congress, the federal judiciary, media, and academia.

Judy Ansley
Former Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor
National Security Council

Christopher Ford
Former Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation
Department of State

Lenora Peters Gant
Former Senior National Intelligence Officer
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

General Michael Hayden (Ret.)
Former Director
Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency

Suzanne Wilson Heckenberg
President
Intelligence and National Security Alliance and Foundation (INSA)

Ellen E. McCarthy
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research
US Department of State

John Norton Moore
former Walter L. Brown Professor of Law & Director
Center for National Security Law, UVA

Alan Charles Raul
Sidley Austin LLP Privacy and Cybersecurity Partner
Former Vice Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
Former Associate Counsel to the President
Sidley Austin LLP

Frances Townsend
Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Executive Office of the President of the United States

Vice Admiral TJ White (Ret.)
Former Commander
Fleet Cyber Command, US Tenth Fleet, and Navy Space Command