Elaine C. Kamarck is a Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies program as well as the Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution. She is an expert on American ele...

Kellen Dwyer is a partner at Alston & Bird and co-chair of the firm’s National Security & Digital Crimes Team. He served in the Justice Department for seven years, first as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in ...

Karoun A. Demirjian is a multimedia international journalist and freelance reporter at the Washington Post covering defense and foreign policy and was previously a correspondent based in the Post's burea...

Rachael Bade is co-author of the Politico Playbook newsletter and a political analyst for CNN. She spent two years reporting on U.S. Congress for The Washington Post.

Ilana Krill is a Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism. Before joining PoE, she worked as a research intern for the Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near...

Nick Starck is a U.S. Army cyber officer currently assigned to the Army Cyber Institute where he is a researcher and an instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His re...

Dr. Erica Lonergan is an assistant professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She also currently serves as a commissioner on the Center for Strategic and Internat...

Maggie Smith, PhD is a US Army cyber officer currently assigned to the Army Cyber Institute (ACI) at the United States Military Academy where she is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Sci...

Marcel Plichta is a Ph.D. candidate in international relations at the University of St. Andrews and a former analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense. He has written on African affairs and security iss...

Christopher Faulkner is an assistant professor at the U.S. Naval War College. He researches and writes on issues related to irregular warfare, militant financing and tactics, private military and securit...

Michael Stern is an attorney who specializes in legal issues affecting Congress and the legislative process, including congressional ethics, elections, investigations, lobbying and constitutional reform....

Russell Spivak is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has previously interned in the Office of the Chief Prosecutor in the Office of Military Commissions.

Lieutenant Commander Adam Aliano is a Navy Judge Advocate. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Harvard Law School, and the Naval War College. After graduating from the Naval Academy, LCD...

Jacqueline Chervak is a senior associate in Morrison Foerster’s National Security and Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and White Collar Defense groups. She previously served in the U.S. Department of ...

Brandon L. Van Grack is a partner and co-chair of the National Security and Crisis Management practices at Morrison & Foerster LLP. He is a former senior national security official at the U.S. Departmen...

Laurence R. Helfer is Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law and co-director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at Duke University. He is also a Permanent Visiting Professor at iCourts...

Molly K. Land is the Catherine Roraback Professor of Law and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of human rights and science and techn...

David Bosco is the executive associate dean and a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of “Rough Justice: The International Crimin...

Alexis Jori Shanes is a third-year JD student at Georgetown University Law Center. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and an undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State U...