CEPA Forum 2015 and 2016
Speakers
Frank J. Cilluffo
Associate Vice President & Director, Center for Cyber and Homeland Security (CCHS), the George Washington University

Frank J. Cilluffo is an Associate Vice President at The George Washington University where he leads a number of national security and cyber security policy and research initiatives. Cilluffo directs the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, is co-director of GW’s Cyber Center for National and Economic Security and along with the School of Business, launched the university’s World Executive MBA in Cybersecurity program.

Cilluffo is routinely called upon to advise senior officials in the Executive Branch, US Armed Services, and State and Local governments on an array of national and homeland security strategy and policy matters. He also frequently briefs Congressional committees and their staffs and has testified before Congress over 25 times at high profile hearings on counterterrorism, cyber threats, security and deterrence, weapons proliferation, organized crime, intelligence and threat assessment, as well as emergency management, border and transportation security. Similarly, he works with US allies and organizations such as NATO and Europol.

Cilluffo has published extensively in academic, law, business, and policy journals, and magazines and newspapers worldwide. He serves or has served on various national security-related committees sponsored by the US government and non-profit organizations, including the Homeland Security Advisory Council, where he served as the Vice Chairman of the Future of Terrorism Task Force. His current leadership positions include serving on the National Council of Advisors for the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and as chairman of the National Consortium for Advanced Policing.

Cilluffo joined GW in 2003, establishing CCHS as a prominent nonpartisan “think and do tank” dedicated to the building bridges between theory and practice to advance US security. Cilluffo served as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security from 2001 to 2003 where he worked as a principal advisor to Governor Tom Ridge, and directed the President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council. Before his White House appointment, Cilluffo spent eight years in senior policy positions with the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a Washington-based think tank.