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Adjunct Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security
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E-mail: dprieto@cfr.org
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Washington, DC
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Technology, finance, and strategy executive and policy expert in security issues. Professional staff member on the Homeland Security Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. Author of War About Terror: Civil Liberties and National Security After 9/11 and Neglected Defense: Mobilizing the Private Sector to Support Homeland Security. Directed recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on Civil Liberties and National Security.
Expertise:National and homeland security; counterterrorism; privacy and civil liberties; intelligence reform and domestic intelligence; information technology; information sharing; critical infrastructure protection; trade and transportation security.
Experience:Vice president and senior fellow, homeland security and intelligence, IBM; council of advisors and member, Homeland Security Presidential Transition Initiative, Center for American Progress and Third Way, (2008); director, Independent Task Force on Civil Liberties and National Security, Council on Foreign Relations (2007-2008); senior advisor, Commission on the National Guard and Reserve (2007-8); research director, Homeland Security Partnership Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2004-6); professional staff member, Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives (2003-4); member, Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age; vice president, ZG Ventures, (2001-2003); director, corporate development, AOL/Time Warner (1998-2001); investment banker, mergers & acquisitions, aerospace & defense, technology, media, and telecommunications, J.P Morgan (1995-1998).
Languages:French (familiar).
Honors:Marshall Memorial Fellow, German Marshall Fund (2009); Visiting Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University (2008); Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2004-6); International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (2003-4); Senior Fellow, Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI), the George Washington University (2005-2008); member, Cosmos Club.
Current Research Projects
May 19, 2006
Audio
Listen to Bryan Cunningham and Jeff Jonas discuss emerging technologies and the implications for the modern intelligence community.
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May 19, 2006
Transcript
Bryan Cunningham and Jeff Jonas discuss the pivotal role of technology in support of U.S. intelligence, as well as the importance of understanding these technologies and their implications for policy. Topics include intelligence sharing networks, anonymization, data mining, and civil-liberty concerns.
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April 28, 2006
Op-Ed
Washingtonpost.com
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March 2006
Council Special Report No. 13
Council Special Report
The central finding of this report is that federal government has had a naïve view of what the market is able to do when left largely on its own to protect critical infrastructure.
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March 10, 2006
Audio
Listen to Stephen Flynn, the Council's senior fellow for National Security studies and author of America the Vulnerable, lead a discussion on the role of the private sector in homeland security as part of the 2006 Corporate Conference.
See more in Defense/Homeland Security
March 9, 2006
Transcript
Stephen Flynn leads a discussion with homeland security experts Kenneth Damstrom, Daniel Prieto, and Nancy Wong as part of the 2006 Corporate Conference.
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In The Closing of the American Border, Edward Alden goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the Bush administration’s struggle to balance security and openness in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
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In this report, CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi analyzes the potential use of deterrence in preventing terrorist groups from acquiring nuclear weapons and recommends a new approach to U.S. declaratory policy, as well as ways to improve U.S. capabilities to determine the sources of terrorist attacks.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
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