National Security Adjunct Faculty
Our visiting and adjunct faculty members are leading practitioners drawn from the highest levels of government, the private sector, and the nonprofit and advocacy sectors.
Judge John Bates – United States District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Lisa Bhansali – Senior Governance Adviser, The World Bank
Philip Carter – Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security
Richard Chovanec – Attorney-Adviser, U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Alan Cohn – Of Counsel at Steptoe & Johnson LLP; President and Principal, ADC/Strategy.Works LLC
John C. Demers – Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Global Law Affairs, Boeing Company
Jonathan Drimmer – Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Barrick Gold Corp.
Pascale Helene Dubois – Vice President, Integrity, World Bank
Judge Andrew Effron – Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Mark Feldman – Of Counsel at Garvey, Schubert, and Barer
Jared Genser – Managing Director of Perseus Strategies
James Gresser – Attorney Adviser, Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Diplomatic Law and Litigation, U.S. Department of State
Steven Hipfel – Environmental Legal Counsel, Office of Naval Research
Todd Huntley – Director, International and Operational Law Division, Office of the Judge Advocate General
Richard Jackson – Special Assistant to the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters
David Jonas – Partner, Fluet Huber + Hoang, PLLC
Jennifer L. Klein – Advisor to Hillary Rodham Clinton
Kenneth Lazarus – Member, Lazarus & Associates
Jeffrey H. Lewis – Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
C. Dean McGrath – Attorney-at-Law
John Norton Moore – Walter L. Brown Professor of Law and Director of the Centers for National Security Law and Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia School of Law
John Oliver – Senior Ocean Policy Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters; Former Chief and Senior Appellate Judge, United States Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals
Michel Paradis – Defense Counsel, Office of the Chief Defense Counsel, Department of Defense
Patrick Pearsall – Chief of Investment Arbitration, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
Mark Plotkin – Partner, Covington and Burling LLP
Kimberley Raleigh – Counsel, Office of Law and Policy, National Security Division, Department of Justice
Marc Rotenberg – Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Jonathan J. Rusch – Senior Vice-President, Head of Anti-Bribery and Corruption Governance, Wells Fargo
Douglas Rutzen – President and CEO, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Paul W. Schmidt – Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP
James A. Schoettler – Deputy General Counsel & Director, Corporate Compliance at Centrus Energy Corp.
Gary Solis –Former Professor, United States Military Academy
Rachel B. Vogelstein – Senior Fellow and Director, Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations
Mark Vlasic – Senior Fellow, Institute for Law, Science & Global Security, Georgetown; Principal, Madison Law & Strategy Group PLLC; Co-Executive Producer, Propagate Content; Senior Fellow, Institute of International Economic Law
Ken Wainstein – Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Don Wallace – Chairman, International Law Institute
Jim Zirkle – Former Associate General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency
Marc J. Zwillinger – Founder and Managing Member, ZwillGen PLLC
University Affiliates
The Center’s University Affiliates provide the basis for an inter-disciplinary and cross-sectoral approach to solving our most pressing national security challenges.
Anthony C. Arend

Daniel Byman

Bruce Hoffman

Professor Bruce Hoffman is currently Director of the Center for Security Studies and a tenured professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC. Professor Hoffman previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and was also Director of RAND’s Washington, D.C. Office. From 2001 to 2004, he served as RAND’s Vice President for External Affairs and in 2004 he also was Acting Director of RAND’s Center for Middle East Public Policy. Professor Hoffman was appointed by the U.S. Congress in 2013 to serve as a commissioner on the Independent Commission to Review the FBI’s Post-9/11 Response to Terrorism and Radicalization, which concluded its work in March 2015.
Professor Hoffman was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he was also Chairman of the Department of International Relations. Professor Hoffman is Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, the leading scholarly journal in the field. He is also editor of the Columbia University Press Series on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare. Professor Hoffman holds degrees in government, history, and international relations and received his doctorate from Oxford University. In November 1994, the Director of Central Intelligence awarded Professor Hoffman the United States Intelligence Community Seal Medallion the highest level of commendation given to a non-government employee. Professor Hoffman was Scholar-in-Residence for Counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency between 2004 and 2006; an adviser on counterterrorism to the Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq in 2004, and from 2004-2005 an adviser on counterinsurgency to Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad. He is the author of Inside Terrorism (2006); The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: Cases From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden’s Death (2014), and Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 (2015).
Nancy Sherman
Nancy Sherman is University Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. From 1997-1999, she served as inaugural holder of the Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the US Naval Academy, designing the brigade-wide military ethics course and the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership. She has research training in psychoanalysis from the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and regularly consults with military and veterans groups on issues of ethics, resilience, and posttraumatic stress. In October 2005, she visited Guantanamo Bay Detention Center as part of an independent observer team assessing the medical and mental health care of detainees; in 2011-2012 she attended the Vice Chief of the U.S. Army’s Suicide Prevention Group. She has written on issues of ethics, military ethics, moral psychology and the emotions, and ancient, Stoic, and Kantian moral philosophy. Her books include The Fabric of Character (1989), Making a Necessity of Virtue (1997), Stoic Warriors (2005), The Untold War (2010) and Making Peace with War (2015). She has been a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2013-2014.