Rand Beers, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, served for 35 years as a senior civil servant. After serving as a Marine officer and rifle company commander in Vietnam, he entered the Foreign Service in 1971 and the Civil Service in 1983. He served on the NSC White House staff as Director for Counter-terrorism and Counter-narcotics, Director for Peacekeeping, and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs from 1988 to 1998. From 1998 to 2003 he was Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. In 2002 and 2003, he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism. He resigned in March 2003 to work on John Kerry's presidential campaign as National Security/Homeland Security Issue Coordinator.
Richard Clarke, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, has served the last three presidents as a senior White House Advisor. He has held the titles of Special Assistant to the President for Global Affairs; National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism; and Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security. Prior to his work at the White House, Clarke served for 19 years in the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community, and State Department. During the Reagan Administration, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence. During former President George H.W. Bush's administration, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs and coordinated diplomatic efforts to support the 1990-1991 Gulf War and the subsequent security arrangements. He is the author of “Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror.”
