Frank Cilluffo
Vice President for Homeland Security and Director, Homeland Security Policy Institute

As Associate Vice President for Homeland Security at The George Washington University, Frank J. Cilluffo leads the University’s homeland security efforts on education, research, training, and policy. He also directs the multi-disciplinary Homeland Security Policy Institute and teaches a graduate level course on counterterrorism and homeland security at the Elliott School of International Affairs.

Cilluffo joined George Washington from the White House where he served as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security. Shortly following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Cilluffo was appointed by President George W. Bush to the newly created Office of Homeland Security. In his capacity as Special Assistant to the President for External Affairs, Cilluffo was responsible for engaging and building partnerships with the private sector, academic, and state and local officials and emergency responders on homeland security policies and initiatives. He was a principal advisor to Governor Tom Ridge and directed the President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council and its four Senior Advisory Committees.

Prior to his White House appointment, Cilluffo spent eight years in senior policy positions with the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), a Washington based "think tank.” At CSIS he chaired or directed numerous committees and task forces on homeland defense, counterterrorism, transnational crime, and information warfare and information assurance.

In addition to publishing extensively in academic, law, business, and policy journals, and magazines and newspapers worldwide, Cilluffo is co-author and editor of Combating Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Terrorism: A Comprehensive Strategy (2001); Cyber Threats and Information Security: Meeting the 21st Century Challenge (2001); Russian Organized Crime & Corruption: Putin’s Challenge (2000); Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism, Cyberwarfare (1998); Russian Organized Crime (1997); and Global Organized Crime: The New Empire of Evil (1994).

He has testified before the United States Congress on a number of occasions and has been a regular guest on major television and radio networks worldwide. Cilluffo presently serves and has served on various national security-related committees sponsored by the U.S. government and non-profit organizations, including the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

Cilluffo continues to remain active in the non-profit and think tank communities. His current leadership positions include: Counselor to the Center for the Study of the Presidency; term member with the Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Fellow with the Council on Competitiveness; member of the board of directors of the ComCARE Alliance; and he served as a Fellow at the World Economic Forum. He also advises a handful of corporations on strategy, plans and programs and was elected to the board of directors of VitalSpring Technologies and appointed to the board of advisors for Digital Sandbox and Monumental Venture Partners.

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