Juliette N. Kayyem

Juliette N. Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy, is a
faculty affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs. Previously, she was Executive
Director for Research at the Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs and oversaw the terrorism and homeland
security research program at Harvard from 2001 to 2003. From
1999 to July 2001 she served as former House Minority Leader
Richard Gephardt's appointment to the National Commission on
Terrorism. She served in a variety of capacities at the
Department of Justice, including as a legal advisor to
Attorney General Janet Reno. Her work focuses on
counterterrorism, law enforcement, and homeland security and
has appeared in numerous academic and popular publications.
She is the coauthor of Preserving Liberty in an Age of
Terror and coeditor of First to Arrive: State and
Local Response to Terrorism. Kayyem is also a national
security analyst for NBC News. She is a 1995 graduate of
Harvard Law School.