Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security
Staff: Stephen E. Flynn
January 2005 - Present
Prompted by the critical security challenges facing our country, and the growing need to fully engage the private sector in meeting these challenges, the Council is sponsoring the Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security. The series is directed by Dr. Stephen Flynn, the Council's Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies. The aim of the Roundtable is to vigorously address some of the pressing issues highlighted in Flynn's recently released book, America the Vulnerable, How Our Government is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism.
The design of the initiative is a sustained dialogue between homeland security experts and a small high-level group of decision makers from the private sector. Bringing these two groups together, the Council hopes to promote a forum for frank discussion leading to valuable insights into difficult security issues and the pursuit of solutions in the context of our present political and economic environment.
Publications
Meetings
Roundtable Meeting
Dangerous Seas: The Role of the U.S. Coast Guard in Building a Safer Marine Environment
Presider:
Stephen E. Flynn, Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Robert J. Papp Jr., Commander of the Coast Guard Atlantic Area, U.S. Coast GuardThis meeting is not for attribution.
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The U.S.-Canada Border: Prospects for Cooperation and Collaboration
Presider:
Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Scott G. Borgerson, International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Peter Neffenger, Rear Admiral, Incoming Ninth District Commander, United States Coast GuardThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Homeland Security Handoff: The Department of Homeland Security and Transition 2009
Presider:
Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Randy Beardsworth, Principal, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLC, Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland SecurityThis meeting is not for attribution.
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America the Resilient
Speaker:
Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Homeland Security and the Next Administration: A View from Capitol Hill
Presider:
Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Staff Director and General Counsel, House Select Committee on Homeland SecurityThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Disaster Preparedness: How Vulnerable Are We? A Conversation with Admiral Harvey Johnson
Presider:
Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Harvey E. Johnson, Jr., USCG, Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer, Federal Emergency Management AgencyThis meeting is not for attribution.
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The Next Attack: The State of the Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland
Presider:
Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Henry Crumpton, Distinguished Fellow, East-West Institute, Former Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of StateThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Shrinking the Targets
Presider:
Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, The Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Charles Perrow, Yale UniversityThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Terrorism and the Homegrown Threat
Presider:
Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, The Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Michael L. Alexander, Staff Director, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Brandon Milhorn, Staff Director, Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Edge of Disaster
Speaker:
Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
This meeting is not for attribution.
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Critical Infrastructure Protection
Presider:
Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Robert B. Stephan, Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Alfonso Martinez-Fonts Jr., Assistant Secretary for the Private Sector, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
This meeting is not for attribution.
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Disaster Response
Presider:
Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Robert Block, Homeland Security Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
This meeting is not for attribution.
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Special Briefing on the Private Sector and the Global War on Terror
Speaker:
Henry Crumpton, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of StatePresider:
Stephen E. FlynnThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Working Session on the Draft Special Report
Presider:
Stephen E. FlynnThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Energy Security Working Group
Speaker:
Daniel H. YerginPresider:
Stephen E. FlynnThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Emergency Preparedness Working Group
Speaker:
Joseph Pfeifer, Fire Department of New YorkPresider:
Stephen E. FlynnThis meeting is not for attribution.
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