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Leadership

• Rand Beers [r]: Founder, National Security Network; National Security Adviser to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign; 35 years as Foreign Service Officer and sevant. National Security Council (NSC) staff (1988-1998) Director for Counterterrorism 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). NSC Senior Director for Combating Terrorism at the National Security Council (2002-3) ^[e] 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

• Daniel Cruise [r]: Chairman of the Board, National Security Network; Managing Director, Stonebridge International, New York Office ^[e] Chairman of the Board, National Security Network; Managing Director, Stonebridge International, New York Office
• Michael Cohen [r]: Board of Directors, National Security Network and contributor to Democracy's Arsenal blog; Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation; previously chief speechwriter for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson and Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Stuart Eizenstat; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Foreign Policy,; chief speechwriter for Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut) ^[e] Board of Directors, National Security Network; Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation
• John Hall [r]: U.S. Congressional Representative(D-New York); Congressional Progressive Caucus ^[e] Board of Directors, National Security Network; Managing Director, Technology Investment Banking, JPMorgan
• Brian Mathis [r]: Board of Directors, National Security Network; Co-Managing Member, Provident Group Asset Management LLC ^[e] Board of Directors, National Security Network; Co-Managing Member, Provident Group Asset Management LLC
• John Morton, Managing Director [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionBoard of Directors, National Security Network;Program Planning and Economic Policy, The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Leah Pisar [r]: Board of Directors, National Security Network; Senior Adviser, French American Foundation ^[e] Board of Directors, National Security Network; Senior Adviser, French American Foundation

Advisory Board

• Leslie Gelb [r]: Chairman, National Security Network; Academic Council, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa; President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Pulitzer Prize-winning former correspondent for the New York Times, and senior official in State and Defense Departments; Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1980-81); Assistant Secretary of State for political/military affairs (1977-79); Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution (1969-73); Visiting Professor, Georgetown University (1969-73) ^[e]
• Stanley Arkin [r]: Board of advisors, National Security Network ^[e] Board of advisors, National Security Network
• Samuel Berger [r]: "Sandy"; Chair, Albright Stoneridge Group; Board of advisors, National Security Network, America Abroad Media and Partnership for a Secure America; Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, Clinton Administration ^[e]
• Richard Clarke [r]: Career U.S. defense official who served in policy posts in the Ronald Reagan,George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations, specializing in counterterrorism in the latter two ^[e] Board of advisors, National Security Network
• Wesley Clark [r]: Chairman and CEO, Wesley K. Clark Associates, LLC; Liberty and Security Committee, Constitution Project; Atlantic Council; Board of advisors, National Security Network; Guiding Coalition, Project for National Security Reform; Democratic presidential candidate; General, United States Army, retired after commanding United States European Command and serving as Supreme Allied Commander Europe ^[e] Board of advisors, National Security Network
• Gail Furman [r]: Add brief definition or description Board of advisors, National Security Network
• Charles Kupchan [r]: Add brief definition or description Board of advisors, National Security Network
• Lester Pollack [r]: Add brief definition or description Board of advisors, National Security Network
• Theodore Sorensen [r]: Add brief definition or description Board of advisors, National Security Network
• Frank Wisner, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description

Public education partner

• John Hall [r]: U.S. Congressional Representative(D-New York); Congressional Progressive Caucus ^[e] Chairman of the Board, C3 Managing Director, Technology Investment Banking, JPMorgan
• Peter Emerson [r]: Add brief definition or description Founding Partner, Emerson Associates International
• Gordon Goldstein [r]: Add brief definition or description Managing Director, Silverfern Group
• Nina Hachigian [r]: Add brief definition or description Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
• David L. Mercer [r]: Add brief definition or description President of Mercer & Associates
• Doug Wilson [r]: Add brief definition or description co-Founder and President, The Leaders Project
• Lee Wolosky [r]: Add brief definition or description Secretary; Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP

Staff

• Paul Eaton [r]: Add brief definition or description 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.
• Heather Hurlburt [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Joel Rubin [r]: Add brief definition or description 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
• Max Bergmann [r]: Add brief definition or description 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.
• Adam Blickstein [r]: Add brief definition or description Communications Director, National Security Network; previous Rep. Jane Harman’s Press Secretary; production assistant at CNN]].
• Ryan Keenav [r]: Add brief definition or description, 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.