Daniel B. Prieto
Daniel B. Prieto is Vice President and Senior Fellow for Homeland Security and Intelligence at IBM’s Global Leadership Initiative. He is a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and the Project Director for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Independent Task Force on Civil Liberties and National Security. He recently served as Senior Advisor to the Commission on the National Guard and Reserve and as a member of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. Previously, Mr. Prieto was Research Director of the Homeland Security Partnership Initiative at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he was also a fellow and a graduate-level lecturer. He has been a professional staff member on Homeland Security Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. As director of corporate development for America Online and as an investment banker with JP Morgan, he served as an advisor on over $125 billion in transactions in the technology, media, and aerospace and defense sectors. Mr. Prieto is co-author of Global Movement Management: Strengthening Commerce, Security and Resiliency in Today’s Networked World and Neglected Defense: Mobilizing the Private Sector to Support Homeland Security. He is a contributing author to Threats at Our Threshold: Homeland Defense and Homeland Security at the Turn of the Century, The Forgotten Homeland and Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability. He has testified before the U.S. Senate, and his commentary and analysis have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Washington Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, MSNBC, CNN, FOX, BBC, and NPR. Mr. Prieto is an honors graduate of Wesleyan University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).