Key Qualifications

As Associate Vice President for Homeland Security at The George Washington

University, Frank J. Cilluffo leads the University’s homeland security efforts on policy, research, education, and training. He directs the multi-disciplinary Homeland Security

Policy Institute (HSPI) a unique, nonpartisan “think and do tank” that builds bridges between theory and practice to advance homeland security through a multi and interdisciplinary approach. The Institute’s recent policy and research agenda has spanned terrorism and radicalization, disaster management and emergency preparedness, pandemic influenza planning and bio-defense, intelligence and information sharing, and a host of other national and homeland security matters. Cilluffo co-chairs the Ambassadors Roundtable Series on International Collaboration to Combat Terrorism and Insurgencies.

This series has hosted numerous ambassadors, heads of state and cabinet level officials in an ongoing dialogue on the counterterrorism efforts of multiple nations. He also teaches a graduate level course on counterterrorism and homeland security at the Elliott School of International Affairs.

Cilluffo joined GW in April 2003 from the White House where he served as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security. Shortly following the September 11,

2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Cilluffo was appointed by the President to the newly created Office of Homeland Security, and served as a principal advisor to Governor Ridge.

Prior to his White House appointment, Cilluffo spent eight years in senior policy positions with the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), a Washington based think tank. At CSIS he chaired or directed numerous committees and task forces on homeland defense, counterterrorism, transnational crime, and information warfare and information assurance.

In addition to publishing extensively in academic, law, business, policy journals, and magazines and newspapers worldwide, Cilluffo is co-author and editor of NETworked

Radicalization: A Counter-Strategy (2007); Out of the Shadows: Getting Ahead of

Prisoner Radicalization (2006); Cyberstrategy 2.0 (2006); Regionalizing Homeland

Security: Unifying National Preparedness and Response (2006); Empowering America:

A Proposal for Enhancing Regional Preparedness (2006); Terrorism Risk Insurance:

Assessing TRIA and the Way Forward (2005); Back to The Future: An Agenda for

Federal Leadership of Emergency Medical Services (2005); Public Preparedness: A

National Imperative (2005); Consolidating the House’s Homeland Security Efforts: The

Time to Act is Now (2004); Combating Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear

Terrorism: A Comprehensive Strategy (2001); Cyber Threats and Information Security:

Meeting the 21st Century Challenge (2001); Russian Organized Crime & Corruption:

Putin’s Challenge (2000); Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism, Cyberwarfare (1998); Russian

Organized Crime (1997); and Global Organized Crime: The New Empire of Evil (1994).

He has testified before the United States Congress on a number of occasions, has been a regular guest on major television and radio networks worldwide, and lectures extensively to governmental and academic audiences domestically and internationally. Cilluffo presently serves and has served on various national security-related committees sponsored by the U.S. 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, chaired by Congressman Lee Hamilton. Cilluffo currently is a member of the Secure Borders and Open Doors Advisory Committee.

Cilluffo served as a Fellow at the World Economic Forum, and was a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. He continues to remain active in the non-profit and think tank communities, currently serving as a member of the Center for the Study of the Presidency’s National Council of Advisors, and member of the University of Virginia’s Critical Incident Analysis Group Steering Committee.