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.

Gen. Keith Alexander (Ret.)

Former Director, NSA

Commander, USCYBERCOM

Michael Allen

Managing Director

Beacon Global

Dmitri Alperovitch

Co-Founder and Chairman

Silverado Policy Accelerator

Chuck Alsup

Former President

INSA

Vishal Amin

Former Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator

Executive Office of the President

Judy Ansley

Former Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor

National Security Council

Stewart Baker

Partner

Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Jeremy Bash

Founder and Managing Director

Beacon Global

John B. Bellinger III

Partner

Arnold & Porter

Teresa Carlson

President

General Catalyst

Gus Coldebella

General Partner

True Ventures

Cindy Courville

First U.S. Ambassador to the African Union

Sada Cumber

Former U.S. Ambassador to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference

Ambassador (Ret.) Kelley E. Currie

Founding Partner

Kilo Alpha Strategies

Raj De

Global Management Committee Member

Mayer Brown

John Demers

Corporate Secretary

The Boeing Company

Donald R. Dixon

Board of Directors

IronNet Security

William Evanina

Former Director

National Counterintelligence and Security Center

Alice Fisher

Partner

Latham & Watkins

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

Greg Garcia

Executive Director for Cybersecurity

Health Sector Coordinating Council

Gen. Karen Gibson (Ret.)

Sergeant At Arms

U.S. Senate

Sue Gordon

Director

CACI

General Michael Hayden (Ret.)

Former Director

Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency

William J. Haynes

Former Executive Vice President

CSRA

Suzanne Wilson Heckenberg

President

Intelligence and National Security Alliance and Foundation (INSA)

Niloofar Howe

Senior Operating Partner

Energy Impact Partners

Aaron Hughes

Albertsons Companies

Frank R. Jimenez

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Raytheon Technologies Corporation

Sean Joyce

Former Deputy Director

Federal Bureau of Investigations

David Kris

Founder

Culper Partners

Jim Langevin

Former Congressman, D-RI

U.S. House of Representatives

Richard H. Ledgett, Jr.

Former Deputy Director

National Security Agency

Paul Lettow

Senior Fellow

American Enterprise Institute

Mike LeFever

Chief Executive Officer

Concentric Advisors

Jessie K. Liu

Former U.S. Attorney for DC

Department of Justice

Letitia A. Long

Former Director

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Gilman Louie

Chief Executive Officer

America's Frontier Fund

Sigal Mandelker

General Partner

Ribbit Capital

Ellen E. McCarthy

Former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research

US Department of State

Mike McConnell

Former Director of National Intelligence

Brent McIntosh

General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Citi

Carmen Medina

Former Deputy Director for Intelligence

Central Intelligence Agency

Dawn Meyerriecks

Former Deputy Director for Science and Technology

Central Intelligence Agency

Rear Admiral Alex Miller (Ret.)

Former Chief of Staff

National Security Agency

Heather Molino

Principal

CornerStone

John Norton Moore

former Walter L. Brown Professor of Law & Director

Center for National Security Law, UVA

Lester Munson

Practice Co-Head, Principal

BRG Group

Michael B. Mukasey

Former U.S. Attorney General

Glenn Nye III

President & CEO

Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress

Julia Nesheiwat

Former Homeland Security Advisor

National Security Council

Farah Pandith

First Ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities

Leon E. Panetta

Former Secretary of Defense

Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Margaret Peterlin

Former Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State

U.S. Department of State

Yleem Poblete

Fmr. Asst. Sec. for Arms Control, Verif., & Cmpl.

U.S. Department of State

Benjamin Powell

Former General Counsel

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

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

Philip R. Reitinger

President & CEO

Global Cyber Alliance

Harvey Rishikof

Chair of the Advisory Committee

ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security

Kristi Rogers

Managing Partner and Co-Founder

Principal to Principal

Mike Rogers

Former Chairman

U.S. House Intelligence Committee

Paul Rosenzweig

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Patrick Rowan

Partner

McGuireWoods LLP

Ted Schlein

General Partner

Kleiner Perkins

Dr. Nadia Schadlow

Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy

Kristen Silverberg

Executive Vice President of Policy

Business Roundtable

Michael Steed

Founder and Managing Partner

Paladin Capital Group

Frances Townsend

Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

Executive Office of the President of the United States

Michelle Van Cleave

Former National Counterintelligence Executive

Mike Vickers

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Department of Defense

Nicole Washington

Head of Management Consulting

Defense, Intel & Space Business Unit, CGI Federal

Linton Wells II

Executive Advisor

C4I & Cyber Center

Kathryn Wheelbarger

Vice President for Global Support - Government Affairs

Lockheed Martin

Vice Admiral TJ White (Ret.)

Former Commander

Fleet Cyber Command, US Tenth Fleet, and Navy Space Command

Joe Whitley

Former General Counsel

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Benjamin Wittes

Editor-in-Chief

Lawfare

Paul Wolfowitz

Visiting Scholar

American Enterprise Institute

Julie Myers Wood

Chief Executive Officer

Guidepost Solutions

Alberto Yépez

Co-Founder and Managing Director

ForgePoint Capital

Roger Zakheim

Washington Director

Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute

Juan Zarate

Senior Advisor

CSIS

Amy Zegart

Senior Fellow

Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies