Richard A. Clarke
Richard A. Clarke is the CEO of Good Harbor Security Risk Management, a cybersecurity consultancy, and former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Middle East Institute. He worked for the State Department during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. In 1992, President George H. W. Bush appointed him to chair the Counter-terrorism Security Group and to a seat on the United States National Security Council. In 1998, President Bill Clinton appointed him the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counterterrorism, and the chief counter-terrorism adviser on the National Security Council. Under President George W. Bush, Clarke served as Special Advisor to the President on cybersecurity. In 2013, Clarke served on an advisory group for the Obama administration as it sought to reform NSA spying programs following the revelations of documents released by Edward Snowden. Clarke is the author of ten books, including The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats (with Robert K. Knake, 2020), Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes (with R. P. Eddy, 2017), and Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It (with Robert K. Knake, 2010).