The Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States. It was created by an Executive Order on March 19, 2002. [1]
Council Leadership | |||
Office | Name | Title | |
Co-Chair | William Bratton | Former New York City Police Commissioner and Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department | |
Co-Chair | Jamie Gorelick | Former Deputy Attorney General | |
Vice Chair | Karen Tandy | Former Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator | |
Chair Emeritus | William H. Webster | Former Director of Central Intelligence and Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation | |
Council Members | |||
Office | Name | ||
Member | Jayson Ahern | Former Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection | |
Member | John Allen | Retired United States Marine Corps General | |
Member | Dmitri Alperovitch | Co-Founder of CrowdStrike | |
Member | Marc Andreessen | Co-Founder of Netscape, Opsware, and Mosaic | |
Member | Cheryl Andrews-Maltais | Tribal Chairwoman for Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah | |
Member | Mary Barra | Chair and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors | |
Member | Tarika Barrett | Chief Executive Officer of Girls Who Code | |
Member | Noah Bookbinder | President and Chief Executive Officer of CREW | |
Member | Safra Catz | Chief Executive Officer of Oracle | |
Member | Catherine Chen | Chief Executive Officer of the Polaris Project | |
Member | Michael Chertoff | Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security | |
Member | Carrie Cordero | Senior Fellow and General Counsel at the Center for a New American Security | |
Member | Lynn Good | Chair, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Duke Energy | |
Member | Danielle Gray | Executive Vice-President of Walgreens Boots Alliance, former Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, and former White House Cabinet Secretary | |
Member | Jane Harman | Distinguished Scholar and President Emerita of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and former Congresswoman from California | |
Member | Robert Isom | Chief Executive Officer of American Airlines | |
Member | Scott Kirby | Chief Executive Officer of United Airlines | |
Member | Carie Lemack | Co-Founder of Zed Factor Fellowship | |
Member | Michael Masters | National Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Secure Community Network | |
Member | Brian Moynihan | Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Bank of America | |
Member | Janet Murguía | President and Chief Executive Officer of UnidosUS | |
Member | Leon Panetta | Former Secretary of Defense, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and White House Chief of Staff | |
Member | Ted Schlein | General partner at Kleiner Perkins and Executive Chairman of Ballistic Ventures | |
Member | Sonal Shah | Executive Vice President at United Way and Founding President of the Asian American Foundation | |
Member | Ali Soufan | Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Soufan Group and former F.B.I. agent | |
Member | Todd Stern | Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former Special Envoy for Climate Change | |
Member | Vincent Talucci | Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the International Association of Chiefs of Police | |
Member | Jonathan Thompson | Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Sheriffs' Association | |
Member | Hamdi Ulukaya | Chief Executive Officer of Chobani | |
Member | Lynda Williams | former President of NOBLE | |
Member | Patrick Yoes | National President of the Fraternal Order of Police | |
Member | Wendy Young | President of Kids In Need of Defense | |
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