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.)

President and CEO

IronNet Security

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

Corporate Vice President; Non Executive Chair

Microsoft; KnightSwan

Gus Coldebella

General Counsel

Paradigm

Cindy Courville

First U.S. Ambassador to the African Union

Sada Cumber

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

Raj De

Global Management Committee Member

Mayer Brown

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

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

CISO and Board Director

Albertsons Companies

Frank R. Jimenez

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Raytheon Technologies Corporation

Sean Kanuck

Former National Intelligence Officer for Cyber Issues

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

General Jack M. Keane (Ret.)

President

GSI Consulting

David Kris

Founder

Culper Partners

Richard H. Ledgett, Jr.

Former Deputy Director

National Security Agency

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

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, Inc.

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

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

Michael B. Mukasey

Former U.S. Attorney General

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

Kristen Silverberg

Executive Vice President of Policy

Business Roundtable

Frances Townsend

Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

Executive Office of the President of the United States

Ted Ullyot

Former General Counsel

Facebook

Michelle Van Cleave

Former National Counterintelligence Executive

Mike Vickers

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Department of Defense

Linton Wells II

Executive Advisor

C4I & Cyber Center

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

Julie Myers Wood

Chief Executive Officer

Guidepost Solutions

Paul Wolfowitz

Visiting Scholar

American Enterprise Institute

Alberto Yépez

Co-Founder and Managing Director

ForgePoint Capital

Juan Zarate

Senior Advisor

CSIS

Amy Zegart

Senior Fellow

Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies