2012 Speakers

Please click on the image or name to see the ASF 2012 Speakers' biographies:

 
 

Supreme Allied Commander, Europe;
Commander, U.S. European Command

Adm. William H. McRaven
Commander
U.S. Special Operations Command

Gen. Keith B. Alexander
Director
National Security Agency 


     
John S. Pistole
TSA Administrator 
 
Matthew Olsen
Director
National Counterterrorism Center 
Sean M. Joyce
Deputy Director
FBI 
 
       
Jane Holl Lute
Deputy Secretary
Department of Homeland Security
Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Coordinator for Afghanistan and Pakistan 
David S. Cohen
U.S. Treasury Under Secretary
Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
 

 

Paul N. Stockton
Assistant Secretary
Department of Homeland Security

Lisa Monaco
Assistant Attorney General for National Security
National Security Division
U.S. Department of Justice

Gen. Michael Hayden
Former Director
Central Intelligence Agency;
National Security Agency

       

Michael A. Sheehan
Assistant Secretary for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflicts
Department of Defense

Harold H. Koh
Legal Adviser
Department of State

John E. McLaughlin
Former Deputy & Acting Director
Central Intelligence Agency  
 
   
Adm. Mike McConnell
Former Director of
National Intelligence 
Adm. Dennis C. Blair
Former Director 
National Intelligence
Michael Chertoff
Former Secretary
Department of Homeland Security 


William H. Webster
Chairman
Homeland Security Advisory Committee
John D. Negroponte
Former Deputy Secretary of State; Former Director of National Intelligence
Michael Leiter
Former Director
National Counterterrorism Center
 





 Juan Carlos Zarate
Former Deputy Assistant to the
President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism

Charles E. Allen
Former Under Secretary for 
Intelligence and Analysis
Department of Homeland Security

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

   
 

Zalmay M. Khalilzad
Former Ambassador to the United Nations; Iraq; Afghanistan

Jane Harman
Former Representative
36th Congressional District of
California;
President, CEO, & Chair
Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars

James M. Loy
Senior Counselor, The Cohen Group;
Former Deputy & Acting Secretary, DHS;
Former Administrator, TSA

 
 
 

Frances F. Townsend
Former White House Homeland Security Advisor

Scholar at AEI; Former President of the World Bank; Former Deputy Secretary of Defense

Daniel Benjamin
Coordinator for Counterterrorism
Ambassador-at-Large
U.S. State Department

   
 

Karl W. Eikenberry
Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan


R. James Woolsey, Jr.
Former Director
Central Intelligence Agency

Cofer Black
Former Director
Counterterrorist Center
Central Intelligence Agency

     

Shehrbano "Sherry" Rehman
Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States

Gilles de Kerchove
Coordinator for Counterterrorism for the European Union
Christopher R. Hill
Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq



 

Ali Soufan
CEO
Soufan Group 

Peter Bergen
Director
National Securities Studies Program
New American Foundation

Richard Barrett
Coordinator
United Nations Al Qaeda and Taliban Monitoring Team

 


Alberto J. Mora
Former General Counsel of the Navy

 Eklil Hakimi
Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States

Hank Crumpton
Chairman & CEO
Crumpton Group LLC


 

 

Dana Priest
National Security Reporter
The Washington Post

Maurice Sonnenberg
Senior International Advisor
JPMorgan Chase & Co.

John D. Harris II
President
Raytheon Technical Services Company, LLC 

   
   
Jabir Habeb Jabir
Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to the United States
Christopher Ahlberg
CEO & Co-founder
Recorded Future

Peter Ammon
Ambassador of Germany to the United States

 
 
   
Paula Broadwell
Author of "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus"

Michael Isikoff
Investigative Journalist
NBC News

Rajiv Chandrasekaran
National Editor
The Washington Post

 
 
     

Roger A. Krone
President, Network and Space Systems
The Boeing Company

Kevin P. DeSanto
Managing Director
KippsDeSanto & Co.

 Josh Meyer
Author of "The Hunt for KSM";
Director
Education & Outreach
Northwestern University

 
       
Devin Talbott
Managing Partner
Enlightenment Capital  

Brad Brekke
Vice President, Assets Protection
Target Corporation 

Brad Buswell
CEO & President
Morpho Detection, Inc.