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

National Security Agency

Michael Allen

Former Majority Staff Director

U.S. House Intelligence Committee

Dmitri Alperovitch

Co-Founder and Chairman

Silverado Policy Accelerator

Chuck Alsup

Former Advisor to the Chairman

U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee

Judy Ansley

Former Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor

National Security Council

Stewart Baker

Former General Counsel

National Security Agency

Jeremy Bash

Former Chief of Staff

Central Intelligence Agency

John B. Bellinger III

Former Legal Advisor

U.S. State Department and National Security Council

Teresa Carlson

Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector

Amazon

David S. Cohen

Former Deputy Director

Central Intelligence Agency

Gus Coldebella

Former General Counsel (acting)

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Sada Cumber

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

Raj De

Former General Counsel

National Security Agency

Donald R. Dixon

Co-Founder and Managing Director

ForgePoint Capital

Alice Fisher

Former Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division

U.S. Department of Justice

Sue Gordon

Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Ron Gula

President

Gula Tech Adventures

General Michael Hayden (Ret.)

Former Director

Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency

William J. Haynes

Former General Counsel

U.S. Department of Defense

Niloofar Howe

Former CSO and Sr. VP of Strategy and Operations

RSA Security

Aaron Hughes

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cyber Policy

U.S. Department of Defense

Frank R. Jimenez

Former General Counsel

U.S. Department of the Navy

Sean Kanuck

Former National Intelligence Officer for Cyber Issues

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

General Jack M. Keane (Ret.)

Chairman

Institute for the Study of War

Caroline Krass

Former General Counsel

Central Intelligence Agency

David Kris

Founder

Culper Partners

Richard H. Ledgett, Jr.

Former Deputy Director

National Security Agency

Mike LeFever

Chief Executive Officer

Concentric Advisors

Letitia A. Long

Former Director

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Neil MacBride

Former U.S. Attorney

Eastern District of Virginia

Sigal Mandelker

former Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

U.S. Department of Treasury

Mike McConnell

Former Director of National Intelligence

Carmen Medina

Former Deputy Director for Intelligence

Central Intelligence Agency

Rear Admiral Alex Miller (Ret.)

Former Chief of Staff

National Security Agency

Heather Molino

Former Minority Staff Director

U.S. House Intelligence Committee

Lisa O. Monaco

Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

John Norton Moore

former Walter L. Brown Professor of Law & Director

Center for National Security Law, UVA

Michael B. Mukasey

Former U.S. Attorney General

Matt Olsen

Former Director

National Counterterrorism Center

Farah Pandith

First Ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities

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

Former Vice Chairman

Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

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

Former Assistant Attorney General for National Security

U.S. Department of Justice

Ted Schlein

General Partner

Kleiner Perkins

David R. Shedd

Former Acting Director

Defense Intelligence Agency

Kristen Silverberg

Former U.S. Ambassador

European Union

Ted Ullyot

Former Chief of Staff

U.S. Attorney General

Michelle Van Cleave

Former National Counterintelligence Executive

Kenneth Wainstein

Former Assistant Attorney General for National Security

U.S. Department of Justice

Linton Wells II

Executive Advisor

C4I & Cyber Center

Joe Whitley

Former General Counsel

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Benjamin Wittes

Editor-in-Chief

Lawfare

Julie Myers Wood

Former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security

for Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Paul Wolfowitz

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense

U.S. Department of Defense

Alberto Yépez

Co-Founder and Managing Director

ForgePoint Capital

Juan Zarate

Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism

Amy Zegart

Davies Family Senior Fellow

Hoover Institution