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Leadership
Founder, National Security Network; National Security Adviser to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign; 35 years as Foreign Service Officer and Civil. National Security Council staff (1988-1998) Director for Counter-terrorism and Counter-narcotics, Director for Peacekeeping, and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs; [[Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (1998-2002(. In 2002-03, he was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism at the National Security Council.

Board of Directors
Chairman of the Board, National Security Network; Managing Director, Stonebridge International, New York Office Board of Directors, National Security Network; Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation Board of Directors, National Security Network; Managing Director, Technology Investment Banking, JPMorgan Board of Directors, National Security Network; Co-Managing Member, Provident Group Asset Management LLC Board of Directors, National Security Network;Program Planning and Economic Policy, The Pew Charitable Trusts Board of Directors, National Security Network; Senior Adviser, French American Foundation

Advisory Board
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Public education partner
Chairman of the Board, C3 Managing Director, Technology Investment Banking, JPMorgan Founding Partner, Emerson Associates International Managing Director, Silverfern Group Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress President of Mercer & Associates co-Founder and President, The Leaders Project Secretary; Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP

Staff
Major General Paul D. Eaton served more than 30 years in the United States Army, including combat and post-combat assignments in Iraq, Bosnia and Somalia. As a major general he was assigned to Iraq as Commanding General of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT), where he developed, designed and began the training of the Iraqi military and security forces from 2003 to 2004. Prior to that assignment, he commanded the Army's Infantry Center and was Chief of Infantry for the Army. Eaton has appeared on Hardball, Face the Nation, and Tavis Smiley discussing US national security and human rights policy. In 2008 Eaton served as an advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. He holds a bachelor's degree from West Point and a master's in French from Middlebury College. He is married to PJ, has two sons and a daughter, all soldiers. Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer, National Security Network. In this capacity, he leads NSN’s policy and congressional relations efforts. Prior to joining NSN, Joel was both the Government Affairs Director and Political Director of J Street and JStreetPAC, the political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement. Joel also worked on Capitol Hill, where he was an aide to two senior Democratic Senators on foreign policy, defense, and appropriations issues. He has also held foreign policy positions at the Department of State in both Near Eastern Affairs and Political-Military Affairs, as well as in domestic policy at the Department of Energy in both renewable energy and climate change. He was as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Environmental Education in Costa Rica Deputy Policy Director, National Securit Network; Research Associate for National Security at the Center for American Progress(2004 to 2007};  regular contributor to Democracy Arsenal and the Huffington Post.  Communications Director, National Security Network; previous Rep. Jane Harman’s Press Secretary; production assistant at CNN]]., Outreach Director, National Security Network Previously Assistant Regional Field Director for the Biden campaign; he worked on the 2006 Senate campaign of Robert P. Casey (D-PA); staff at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons(OPCW) in The Hague as a Junior Officer in the Assistance and Protection Branch.