Rand Beers, Founder

Before founding the National Security Network, Rand Beers served as the National Security Adviser to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign, and was for 35 years a civil servant. After serving as a Marine officer and rifle company commander in Vietnam, he entered the Foreign Service in 1971 and the Civil Service in 1983. From 1988-98, Mr. Beers served on the White House National Security Council Staff as Director for Counter-terrorism and Counter-narcotics, Director for Peacekeeping, and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs. From 1998-2003, he was Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. In 2002-03, he was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism at the National Security Council. Beers earned a BA from Dartmouth College and an MA from the University of Michigan.

Advisory Board

Leslie H. Gelb, Chairman

Stanley S. Arkin
Samuel R. Berger
Richard Clarke
General Wesley Clark (ret.)
Dr. Gail Furman
Charles A. Kupchan
Lester Pollack
Theodore C. Sorensen
Frank G. Wisner

Board of Directors

Daniel Cruise, Chairman of the Board; Vice President for Public and Government Affairs, Alcoa

• Michael A. Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation
• John Hall, Managing Director, Technology Investment Banking, JPMorgan
• Brian Mathis, Co-Managing Member, Provident Group Asset Management LLC
• John Morton, Managing Director, Program Planning and Economic Policy, The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Leah Pisar, Senior Adviser, French American Foundation

Our public education activities are supported by our C3 partner the National Security Initiative whose board includes:

John Hall, Chairman of the Board; Managing Director, Technology Investment Banking, JPMorgan

• Peter Emerson, Founding Partner, Emerson Associates International. Scholar in Residence, Harvard College.
• Gordon Goldstein, Managing Director, Silverfern Group
• Nina Hachigian, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
• David L. Mercer, President of Mercer & Associates
• Doug Wilson, co-Founder and President, The Leaders Project
• Lee Wolosky, Secretary; Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP