David Heyman
Director and Senior Fellow
Homeland Security Program
Center for Strategic and International Studies
E-mail: dheyman@csis.org
Phone: (202) 775-3293
Fax: (202) 775-3199

Expertise: homeland security strategy and policy; war on terrorism; biological weapons and radiological threats; emergency preparedness, risk-based security and critical infrastructure protection; energy security; and threat-vulnerability analyses.

As Director and Senior Fellow of the CSIS Homeland Security Program, David Heyman leads the Center’s homeland security efforts on strategy, policy, research, and education. He is one of the center’s leading scholars on bioterrorism, critical infrastructure protection and risk-based security. During his time at CSIS, he has directed the Homeland Security Task Force, Biological Threat Reduction Consortium, and the Roundtable on Science and Security. He has also helped lead studies on Aviation Security, Threat-Vulnerability Analysis, and the tabletop exercise STEADFAST RESOLVE.

Prior to joining CSIS, he served as a senior adviser to the U.S. secretary of energy from 1998 to 2001 and the head of the Department of Energy's Technology Transfer Task Force. From 1995 to 1998, he worked at the White House in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Security and International Affairs Division, coordinating U.S. policies, programs, and budgets related to international cooperation in science and technology, including with Russia, OECD, G-8, and the European Union. Before entering the government, Heyman briefly worked as a consultant with Ernst & Young in their International Privatization and Economics Group in London and was the director of international operations and a senior project manager for a New York–based software company developing supply-chain management systems for Fortune 100 firms. He has worked in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East.

Heyman's publications include DHS 2.0: Rethinking the Department of Homeland Security (2004), “Legal Pressures in National Security Restrictions," in The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain (2003), Lessons from the Anthrax Attacks: Implications for U.S. Bioterrorism Preparedness (2002), as well as contributions to Science and Security in the 21st Century: A Report to the Secretary of Energy on the Department of Energy Laboratories (2002). His most recent publication, Model Operational Guidelines for Disease Exposure Control (2005), a groundbreaking treatise on how to protect public health in a pandemic when no medical countermeasures are available, has been utilized by cities and states across the country.

He has testified before the United States Congress, is a regular guest on CNN, BBC, and FOX News and a frequent on-air contributor to NPR's All Things Considered and WTOP News. He has made appearances on CBS, NBC, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and the Diane Rehm Show, and can be found quoted in The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Los Angeles Times.