The United States National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the president of the United States for consideration of national security,military,and foreign policy matters. Based in the White House,it is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States,and composed of senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials.
Janet Ann Napolitano is an American politician,lawyer,and academic administrator. She served as president of the University of California from 2013 to 2020,on the faculty at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California,Berkeley since 2015,the United States secretary of homeland security from 2009 to 2013,and the governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009.
Jane Margaret Harman is the former U.S. Representative for California's 36th congressional district,serving from 1993 to 1999,and from 2001 to 2011;she is a member of the Democratic Party. Harman was the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee (2002–2006),and chaired the Homeland Security Committee's Intelligence Subcommittee (2007–2011). Resigning from Congress in February 2011,Harman became President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She succeeded former Congressman Lee Hamilton and was the first ever woman to lead the organization. She stepped down in February 2021 after a decade,and is a Distinguished Scholar and President Emerita.
Janice Gross Stein is a Canadian political scientist and international relations expert. Stein is a specialist in Middle East area studies,negotiation theory,foreign policy decision-making,and international conflict management.
ZoëEliot Baird is an American lawyer and Senior Counselor for Technology and Economic Growth to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/u-s-department-of-commerce_department-of-commerce-senior-counselor-zo%C3%AB-activity-7175530165077180417-7-NR/. She was CEO and President of the Markle Foundation from 1998 to 2022. She is known for her role in the Nannygate matter of 1993,which arose when she was nominated by President Bill Clinton as the first woman to be Attorney General of the United States,but she withdrew her nomination when it was discovered she had hired illegal aliens and failed to pay Social Security taxes for them. Since 1998,she has led the Markle Foundation.
Elizabeth Coleman was the ninth president of Bennington College from 1987 to 2013. Coleman also served as the founding Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The New School for Social Research.
Marco Antonio López Jr. is an American politician. He has served in both elected and non-elected public offices,including as mayor of Nogales,Arizona,executive director of the Arizona-Mexico Commission,policy advisor to Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano for Mexico and Latin America,and director of the Arizona Department of Commerce. He is best known as a previous chief of staff of United States Customs and Border Protection who served from 2009 to 2011 under CBP Commissioner Alan Bersin,and as senior advisor to the U.S.-based foundation of billionaire Carlos Slim focused on broadband connectivity for all and free online education.
Meredith Jung-En Woo is an American academic and author. She is a Senior Fellow at the University Design Institute and a Professor of Practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies,both at Arizona State University. She served as President of Sweet Briar College and as the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. She is the former director of the International Higher Education Support Program at the Open Society Foundations in London.
The Elliott School of International Affairs is the professional school of international relations,foreign policy,and international development of the George Washington University,in Washington,D.C. It is highly ranked in international affairs and is the largest school of international relations in the United States.
The White House Office is an entity within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). The White House Office is headed by the White House Chief of Staff,who is also the head of the Executive Office of the President. The staff work for and report directly to the president,including West Wing staff and the president's senior advisers. Almost all of the White House Office staff are political appointees of the president,do not require Senate confirmation and can be dismissed at the discretion of the president.
Lisa Graham Keegan is an American education reform advocate and the author of the parenting book Simple Choices.
Jane Holl Lute is an American diplomat and security analyst currently serving as the UN special envoy on the Cyprus dispute. She served as the deputy secretary of homeland security from 2009 through 2013,after having been confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 3,2009. Previously,Lute was the United Nations assistant secretary-general for peacebuilding support. Before that she was assistant secretary-general for mission support in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations since August 2003. She is the president and CEO of the Arlington-based Council on CyberSecurity and senior advisor to Measure,a drone-as-a-service company. On January 5,2014,she was appointed special adviser for relocation of Camp Hurriya residents outside of Iraq by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. On February 8,2016,she was appointed special coordinator on improving the United Nations response to sexual exploitation and abuse. In 2020,Lute was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Farah Pandith is an American academic of Indian descent. She was appointed the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities in June 2009 by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The position was made specifically for her after she briefed Secretary Clinton about her work in the Bush Administration. She had the rare distinction of being a political appointee for two Republican presidents and President Obama. When she was the Special Representative she traveled to almost 100 countries. After serving under both Secretaries Clinton and John Kerry,she left government. She said she came to Washington after 9/11 again and wanted to serve –she left after more than a decade in public service. She worked at USAID and then went to the National Security Council and then the U.S. Department of State. When she left in 2014,she returned to her home state of Massachusetts.
Charles Edward Tucker Jr. is a retired major general in the United States Air Force. He currently serves as the Co-Founder and Executive Director of two International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs):the World Engagement Institute,Chicago,IL,USA;and the Sustainable Capacity International Institute,Arezzo,Italy. In these capacities,he develops and promotes the fundamental rights of peoples around the world through education,research,documentation,capacity building and advocacy. He also engages in post-conflict justice capacity building programs and large-scale human rights documentation projects throughout the world. Tucker has also served,since October,2019,as Interim General Manager of Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Kristie Canegallo is a U.S. government official serving as the acting United States deputy secretary of homeland security (DHS) since July 2023. She joined DHS in January 2022 as its chief of staff. Canegallo was a White House deputy chief of staff for policy implementation from 2014 to 2017.
David Anthony "Tony" Silver was an American documentary filmmaker known for directing the film Style Wars.
Ehsan Zaffar is a civil rights advocate,educator and policymaker and the founder of the Los Angeles Mobile Legal Aid Clinic (LAMLAC),which helped to pioneer the delivery of mobile legal care to vulnerable populations in California and across the nation.
Joan Shigekawa is an American film and television producer,cultural grantmaker,and arts administrator. After a distinguished career as a senior executive at the Rockefeller Foundation,she joined the Obama Administration in 2009 as senior deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and served as the agency's acting chairman from 2012-2014.
Alice Chamberlayne Hill is an American policy-maker,thought leader,and academic. She currently serves as the David M. Rubinstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. She previously served as a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. During the Obama administration,she was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Resilience Policy at the National Security Council,leading development of policy regarding national security and climate change,building climate resilience considerations and capabilities into international development and other federal initiatives,and developing national risk-management standards for damaging natural hazards. Prior,she served as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,as a federal prosecutor,and judge and supervising judge within the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Christine Elizabeth Wormuth is an American defense official and career civil servant who serves as the United States Secretary of the Army since 2021. She is the first female United States Secretary of the Army.
