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Juliette N. Kayyem (born August 16, 1969) is an American former government official and author. She is the Robert and Renée Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she also serves as Faculty Chair of the Homeland Security Project.[1]. She is host of the Boston-based radio channel WGBH (FM)'spodcast The SCIF,[2] and has also appeared on CNN and Boston Public Radio, and written columns for The Boston Globe.[3] She is also aSenior National Security Analyst for CNN and a contributing writer for The Atlantic magazine, where she writes on terrorism, disaster preparedness, and national security policy.[4]
Kayyem was formerly Massachusetts' first Undersecretary for Homeland Security, and served as Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs in the United States Department of Homeland Securityunder the Obama administration.[5][6] She is also a former candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, and has also held positions as a Belfer Lecturer in International Security at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy.
Kayyem also previously served a senior advisor to theNSO Group, the Israeli tech firm known for the Pegasus spyware tool.In October 2019, Kayyem was made a contributor bythe Washington Post – an appointment that was criticized by Citizen Lab in the context of her role at NSO and the criticism led to Kayyem stepping down just days later. In February 2020, Kayyem also left her role at NSO.
Early life and education
Born in Los Angeles to Lebanese parents,[7] Kayyem graduated from Harvard University with her bachelor's degree in 1991 and from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor degree in 1995
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Kayyem began her legal career in 1995 at the Department of Justice, ultimately serving as an advisor to Attorney General Janet Reno until 1999.[9] From 1999 to 2000, Kayyem served as House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt's appointee to the National Commission on Terrorism, a congressionally mandated review of how the government could better prepare for the growing terrorist threat. Chaired by L. Paul Bremer, that commission's recommendations in the year 2000 urged the nation to recognize and adapt to the growing tide of terrorist activity against the United States.[7]
Department of Homeland Security
Kayyem was appointed as Massachusetts' first Undersecretary for Homeland Security by Governor Deval L. Patrick in January 2007,[10] overseeing the National Guard, the commonwealth's strategic security planning, and the distribution of homeland security funds consistent with the Governor's priorities.
On March 5, 2009, United States Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appointed Juliette N. Kayyem Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs.[citation needed] On May 7, 2015, United States Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson appointed Kayyem to the Homeland Security Advisory Committee.[11][12]
2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial candidacy
In July 2013, it was reported that Kayyem was considering a bid for Governor of Massachusetts in the 2014 election.[13] On August 21, 2013, Kayyem officially announced her candidacy.[14] As a candidate, Kayyem endorsed raising the state minimum wage and an earned sick day mandate for workers.[15] In February 2014, it was reported by The Boston Globe that Kayyem failed to vote in either 2009 and 2010. At the time she was living temporarily in Washington, D.C., and did not ask for an absentee ballot for Massachusetts or register to vote in the District of Columbia. When asked about her voting record, Kayyem's spokesman initially stated that Kayyem had registered in the District of Columbia during those years. But records later showed that Kayyem was never registered in Washington. When confronted with this evidence, Kayyem's campaign spokesman stated that Kayyem didn't think she could vote in Massachusetts during the time in Washington.[16] At the state party convention on June 14, 2014, Kayyem failed to receive the 15% of delegate votes required to make the primary ballot.[17]
Academia
Since 2001, Kayyem has been a resident scholar at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, serving both as executive director of the Kennedy School's Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness, a terrorism and homeland security research program, and as co-director of Harvard's Long-Term Legal Strategy for Combating Terrorism. She also taught courses on law and national security.[18][3] As of fall 2011, Kayyem has returned to the Kennedy School as a lecturer in public policy. She is a member of the Belfer Center board of directors, and Faculty Co-Chair, Dubai Initiative.
Private sector
Until February 2020, Kayyem was a senior advisor to NSO Group, an Israeli technology firm known for its Pegasus spying tool. The company has been suspected of providing spying software that may have been used in targeted attacks against human rights activists and journalists in various countries.[19][20][21]
In October 2017, Kayyem became the chief executive officer of Massachusetts-based Zemcar, an on-demand and scheduled ridesharing company focused on children and seniors.[22] Zemcar discontinued its rideshare services in December 2018. As of March 2019, Kayyem has been chief executive officer of Grip Mobility, a technology company focused on providing transparency in the rideshare industry.[23]
Media
Named one of CNN/Fortune Magazine's "People to Watch," Kayyem served as an on-air analyst for NBC, MSNBC News, and CNN. Her bi-weekly Boston Globe column is distributed through the New York Times wire service.[citation needed] She was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "for her colorful, well reported columns on an array of issues, from women in combat to oil drilling in Alaska."
On October 21, 2019, Kayyem was hired as an opinion contributor by The Washington Post, where Jamal Khashoggi worked as a columnist. Observers pointed out the problematic nature of the hire due to her employment at NSO Group. The director of Citizen Lab, a laboratory that studies human rights abuses and technology told Forbes at the time: "It is a sad day for human rights, a deeply disturbing irony in the wake of Khashoggi's execution, and a public relations victory for NSO Group, to have the Washington Post hire someone sitting on their advisory board."[24] Kayyem stepped down from her Washington Post role four days later, on October 25.[25] In February 2020, Kayyem stepped down from her role as a senior adviser at NSO.[26]
During the blockade of the Ambassador Bridge by truckers in February 2022, Kayyem was accused of promoting vigilantism when she tweeted "The Ambassador Bridge link constitutes 28% of annual trade movement between US and Canada. Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks." Addressing the criticism, she denied the accusation, saying, "People have the freedom to protest. Governments have the responsibility to protect public safety. That was what I intended to say."[27]
Personal life
She is married to David J. Barron, a judge on the First Circuit Court of Appeals.[28] She served on the advisory board of theQatari-government financed International Centre for Sport Security.[29]
Honors and awards
In 2019, Kayyem was named one of Inc. Magazine’s "Top 100 Female Founders" for her work with Grip Mobility and her leadership in entrepreneurship. [30] In January 2023, she received the Pinnacle Leadership Award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce in recognition of her public service and business leadership
Juliette Kayyem
Harvard Professor, CNN National Security Analyst, Former Assistant Secretary at DHS, Author & Consultant
Biography
Professor Juliette Kayyem is currently the faculty chair of the Homeland Security and Security and Global Health Projects at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She also serves as CNN Senior National Security Analyst for CNN where she has been described as CNN’s “go to” for disasters. A contributing writer to The Atlantic, she has aweekly security segment on NPR’s Boston station WGBH. Her most recent book, The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters,was described in a New Yorker profile of her as an “engagingly urgent blueprint for rethinking our approach to disaster preparedness and response.”
In government, she most recently served as President Obama’s Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. Previously, she was Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s Homeland Security Advisor. She is the recipient of many government honors, including the Distinguished Public Service Award, the Coast Guard’s highest medal awarded to a civilian.
Professor Kayyem is the author or editor of six books including the best-selling book Security Mom in 2016, a memoir that explores the intersection, and commonalities, of her life in homeland security and her life as a mother. In 2013, she was named the Pulitzer Prize finalist for editorial columns in the Boston Globe focused on ending the Pentagon’s combat exclusion rule against women, a policy that was changed that year. She won the Telly Award in 2021 for “excellence in a digital series” for her online documentaries onclimate changewith MyRadar.com.
She is a frequent speaker and advisor to major corporations and associations on national and homeland security, planning for a crisis, cybersecurity and resiliency efforts. From 2020-2022, she served as faculty for a joint effort with Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University totrain mayors and city leaders for pandemic planning. She is a Senior Advisor to Teneo,the global consulting firm, and also serves as a security advisor and consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and startups. She was named Inc. Magazine’s top 100 Female Founders in 2019 and received the Lifetime Achievement Pinnacle Award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce in 2023.
A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and the mother of three children, she is married to First Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge David Barron.
https://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/juliette-kayyem/
Former Justice Department Official Is Nominated to Appeals Court
By Charlie Savage
Sept. 24, 2013
President Obama on Tuesday nominated David Barron, who as acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel at the start of the administration evaluated some of its most contentious legal policy questions, to be a federal appeals court judge in Boston. Mr. Barron, a Harvard Law School professor, led the agency from 2009 to 2010 and took aleading role in reviewing and writing legal policy memorandums about the war against Al Qaeda,along with domestic legal questions like how the TARP bailout fund could be used.Mr. Barron also signed two secret memorandums declaring that it would be lawful for the United States to kill Anwar al-Awlaki, a United States citizen suspected of plotting terrorist attacks,if it were not feasible to capture him. Mr. Awlaki died in a drone strike in Yemen 2011.Mr. Barron is married to Juliette Kayyem, who is running in the Democratic Party primary for governor of Massachusetts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/us/former-justice-department-official-is-nominated-to-appeals-court.html