Contact: Josh Diamonstein
Homeland Security Program Associate
The Aspen Institute
202-736-2904 | josh.diamonstein@aspeninstitute.org
Event to feature Secretary Janet Napolitano and co-chairs Michael Chertoff and Jane Harman
Washington, DC, September 12, 2011 –– The Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Program announces the launch of the “Aspen Homeland Security Group” this Thursday, September 15, 2011, from 12:00-1:30 p.m. at our One Dupont Circle offices in Washington, DC. The event will feature Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, and Aspen Homeland Security Group co-chairs, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Director, President, and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and former Congresswoman Jane Harman, in a conversation moderated by The Washington Post’s David Ignatius. Also attending the event and participating in the discussion will be various members of the Aspen Homeland Security Group. (The complete membership list can be found below and online at http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/homeland-security/Aspen%20Homeland%20Security%20Group.)
“I am honored to serve as co-chair of the Aspen Homeland Security Group. This group of dedicated and experienced homeland security and counterterrorism veterans provides a unique forum to make recommendations and raise awareness to the ongoing and ever evolving security challenges of our time,” said Chertoff, now Co-Founder and Managing Principal of The Chertoff Group.
Modeled on the longstanding foreign policy-focused Aspen Strategy Group, the Aspen Homeland Security Group is a bipartisan group of former government officials and policy experts in the field of homeland security/counterterrorism who will provide recommendations to Secretary Napolitano and other relevant policymakers.
“With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 now behind us, it is a time to look ahead to the homeland security/counterterrorism challenges of the future. How will the terror threat change? What new vulnerabilities might lie around the corner? Is the government yet optimally organized to address these threats and vulnerabilities? And, recognizing government’s limitations, especially in these times of budget austerity, are private institutions and individual citizens yet fully empowered to provide maximum support? The Aspen Homeland Security Group is intended to help Secretary Napolitano and other policymakers think through these critical issues in the post-bin Laden era,” said Clark Ervin, the group’s executive director; Director of the Institute’s Homeland Security Program; and the first Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security.
Press may RSVP by contacting Josh Diamonstein at josh.diamonstein@aspeninstitute.org.
Co-Chairs
| Michael Chertoff Former Secretary Department of Homeland Security Chairman and Co-founder The Chertoff Group |
Jane Harman Former Representative 36th Congressional District of California Director, President, & CEO Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |
Members
| Madeleine Albright Former Secretary Department of State Chair Albright Stonebridge Group |
Michael Leiter Former Director National Counterterrorism Center |
| Charlie Allen Former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Department of Homeland Security Principal The Chertoff Group |
Stuart Levey Former Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Department of the Treasury Senior Fellow for National Security and Financial Integrity, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Zoe Baird Former Member Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board President Markle Foundation |
James Loy Former Deputy and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Former Administrator Transportation Security Administration Former Commandant Coast Guard Senior Counselor The Cohen Group |
| Stewart Baker Former Assistant Secretary for Policy Department of Homeland Security Partner Steptoe & Johnson LLP |
Paul McHale Former Representative 15th Congressional District of Pennsylvania Former Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense Department of Defense President, Civil Support International, LLC |
| Richard Ben-Veniste Former Commissioner National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Partner Mayer Brown LLP |
John McLaughlin Former Deputy and Acting Director Central Intelligence Agency Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies |
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Peter Bergen |
Jeanne Meserve Former Homeland Security Correspondent CNN Senior Fellow George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute |
| Samuel Berger Former National Security Advisor Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group |
Philip Mudd Former Deputy Director of National Security Federal Bureau of Investigation Former Deputy Director, Counterterrorist Center Central Intelligence Agency Senior Research Fellow, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative New America Foundation |
| Dennis Blair Former Director of National Intelligence |
Marc Nathanson Co-Chair Homeland Security Advisory Council, Los Angeles County Trustee The Aspen Institute Chairman Mapleton Investments |
| William Bratton Former Commissioner New York Police Department Former Chief Los Angeles Police Department Chairman Kroll |
Daniel Prieto Former Professional Staff Member Homeland Security Committee House of Representatives Vice President and Practice Lead Public Sector Strategy & Innovation IBM Global Business Services |
| Richard Clarke Former National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism Former Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security Partner Good Harbor Consulting |
Suzanne Spaulding Former Assistant General Counsel Central Intelligence Agency Former Executive Director National Commission on Terrorism Former Executive Director Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Principal Bingham Consulting Group LLC |
| P.J. Crowley Former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Department of State Former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs General Omar N. Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University |
Marin Strmecki Former Special Advisor on Afghanistan Office of the Secretary of Defense Former Staff Member Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senior Vice President, Director of Programs Smith Richardson Foundation |
| Jack Goldsmith Former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel Department of Justice Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law Harvard Law School |
Guy C. Swann III Lieutenant General, US Army Commanding General US Army North (Fifth Army) |
| Stephen Hadley Former National Security Advisor Co-Founder Rice Hadley Group LLC |
Fran Townsend Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Senior Vice President Worldwide Government, Legal, and Business Affairs, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. |
| Michael Hayden Former Director National Security Agency; Central Intelligence Agency Principal The Chertoff Group |
Juan Zarate Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for Combating Terrorism Senior Adviser Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies |
| Brian Jenkins Former Advisor National Commission on Terrorism Senior Advisor RAND Corporation |
Philip Zelikow Former Executive Director National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of History University of Virginia |
About The Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Program works to heighten public awareness as to the nation’s continued vulnerability to terrorism, and to persuade the nation to take the necessary steps to close the gap between how secure we should be and how secure we actually are. For more information, please visit www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/homeland-security.
The Aspen Institute mission is twofold: to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues. The Aspen Institute does this primarily in four ways: seminars, young-leader fellowships around the globe, policy programs, and public conferences and events. The Institute is based in Washington, DC; Aspen, Colorado; and on the Wye River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. It also has offices in New York City and an international network of partners. For more information, visit www.aspeninstitute.org.
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