attorney for the district of New Jersey, and assistant U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey, first assistant U.S. In that position, he oversaw the investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and formed the Enron Task Force.Ĭhertoff’s career includes more than a decade as a federal prosecutor, including service as U.S. Before becoming a federal judge, Chertoff was the assistant attorney general for the criminal division of the U.S. Bush’s cabinet, he served from 2003 to 2005 on the U.S. Prior to his appointment to President George W. He also served on the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, and on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. As secretary, he led a 218,000 person department with a budget of $50 billion to develop and implement border security and immigration policy, promulgate homeland security regulation, and spearhead a national cyber security strategy. Previously Chertoff served as secretary of the U.S.
Chertoff is also senior of counsel at Covington & Burling LLP’s Washington, DC, office and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group. Michael Chertoff is chairman and founder of the Chertoff Group, a security and risk management advisory firm with offices in Washington, DC. He also completed the London School of Economics’ general course. He also worked in the East Asia, Middle East, and North Africa directorates at the National Security Council.īrookie graduated cum laude with degrees from American University in Washington, DC. Previously he served as the adviser to the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism (APHSCT), the president’s top aide for cybersecurity, counterterrorism, intelligence, and homeland security issues. President Barack Obama’s national security and foreign policy. His most recent role was as an adviser for strategic communications with a focus on digital strategy, audience engagement, and coordinating a cohesive record of former U.S. Prior to joining the DFRLab, Brookie served in various positions at the White House and National Security Council. Twitter: Brookie is the director and managing editor of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) based in Washington DC. His most recent book is: “Governance for the Digital World – Neither More State nor More Market” (Palgrave, 2020). Two of his books were also published in Russian, Korean, and Portuguese. He is co-author of six books, five of them dealing with Web technologies, e-commerce, performance modeling, and capacity planning, published by Prentice-Hall, US. His research interests focus on social computing, social media, algorithms, and digital governance. He studies political tribalism, extremism, and social psychology using data from social media and tools from the emerging field of computational social science. Virgilio is member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) and the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Virgilio was one of the commissioners of the Global Commission for the Stability of Cyberspace ( /). He was also the chair of NETmundial, the Global Multi-stakeholder Conference on the Future of Internet Governance, that was held in Sao Paulo in 2014. He was the chair of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee ( CGI.br) from 2011-2016. Virgilio was the National Secretary for Information Technology Policies of the Brazilian government from 2011 to 2015. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Poly at the New York University. He held visiting positions in several universities and research labs, such as Harvard University (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), New York University, Boston University, Santa Fe Institute, and HP Research Labs. Virgilio received his PhD degree in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, a Master’s degree in computer science at PUC-Rio, and a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from UFMG. He is also faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. Twitter: Almeida is a professor emeritus of computer science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).