Honorary Advisory Board Member: William J. Bratton

William “Bill'' Bratton is renowned as one of the nation’s top law enforcement officers and one of the world’s most respected and trusted experts on risk and security issues. He currently serves as Executive Chairman of Risk Advisory at Teneo Holdings, where he advises clients on risk identification, prevention, and response in key security areas, including: cyber risk management, counterterrorism, crisis anticipation, critical infrastructure, and health crisis advisory. He also serves as the Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, offering his experience and expertise to provide the Secretary real-time, real-world, and independent advice to support decision-making across the spectrum of homeland security operations.

 During his 46-year career in law enforcement, Bratton instituted progressive change while leading six police departments. He served two terms as the New York City Police Commissioner and seven years as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, making him the only person to have led the police departments of the two largest cities in the U.S.. 

Bratton established an international reputation for re-engineering police departments and fighting crime in the 1990’s. As Chief of the New York City Transit Police, Boston Police Commissioner, and New York City Police Commissioner, he revitalized morale and cut crime, achieving the largest crime declines in New York City’s history. At the NYPD in 1994 and 1995, he led the development of Compstat, the internationally acclaimed command accountability system now in use by police departments nationwide. Bratton also implemented major reforms to the NYPD’s counterterrorism program by developing two new units—the Critical Response Command and the Strategic Response Group.

As Los Angeles Police Chief from 2002 to 2009, and in a city known for its entrenched gang culture and youth violence, he brought crime to historically low levels, greatly improved race relations, and reached out to young people with a range of innovative police programs. 

A noted author, commentator, and consultant, Commissioner Bratton was a Senior Executive Fellow in Criminal Justice and a member of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government National Executive Session on Policing. For his collaborative efforts in working with U.S. and British police forces, he was recognized by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with the honorary title Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE). 

Bratton currently serves as a member of The Common Good Honorary Advisory Board, and he spoke at a Meet & Greet in 2014 at The Common Good.

Twitter: @CommissBratton

Selected Media: 

• Paging Bill Bratton - you're needed in Boston Boston Herald, 2019

• Bill Bratton says no prosecute policy will usher in ‘return to bad old days’ Boston Herald, 2019

• William Bratton, New York’s Influential Police Commissioner, Is Stepping Down 2016, New York Times 

• 'Broken windows' police pioneer Bill Bratton steps down as NYPD commissioner to take job in private sector The Independent, 2016 

• William Bratton on Being New York's Policeman and a New Controversy Wall Street Journal, 2014

• Bratton on City Journal podcast Policing on the Brink: A Conversation with William Bratton

• Bratton for Teneo Insights Webinar: US Election Update

• Bratton for Teneo Insights Webinar: COVID-19 and Crime in US Cities

• Bratton for Teneo: Insider Threats: How Do You Keep “Out” What Emerges From Within?

Books:

• 1998: The Turnaround : How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic 

• 2012: Collaborate or Perish! Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World 

Upcoming: The Profession A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America, coming June 2021

Honorary Advisory Board Member: Former U.S. Representative Jane Harman

Jane Harman is an internationally recognized authority on U.S. and global security issues, foreign relations, and lawmaking. Among her many achievements, Harman is a Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita of the Wilson Center, one of the world’s most highly regarded think tanks.

Harman recently completed a decade as its first female President & CEO. Congresswoman Harman has long been a national expert at the nexus of security and public policy issues, and has received numerous awards for her distinguished service, including the Defense Department Medal for Distinguished Service, the CIA Agency Seal Medal, the CIA Director’s Award, and the Director of National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Medal.

She began her political career as the staff director for Senator John Tunney, before joining the Carter White House as special counsel to the Department of Defense. 

In 1992, she was elected to represent the 36th district of California, one of the record-breaking 37 women to be elected to Congress that year - subsequently labeled the “Year of the Woman”.

She went on to become a nine-term member of Congress who served decades on all the major security committees in the House of Representatives: six years on Armed Services, eight years on Intelligence, and eight on Homeland Security. 

During her time in Congress, Harman also earned a reputation as a supporter of a diverse set of causes, from promoting information sharing across the federal government in the interest of national security, the creation of a Cabinet-level homeland security department, to a partial ban on semi-automatic weapons.

Drawing upon a career that included service as President Carter’s Secretary of the Cabinet and hundreds of diplomatic missions abroad, Harman holds posts on nearly a dozen governmental and non-governmental advisory boards and commissions.

[Cong. Jane Harman with Michael Chertoff at The Common Good]

Harman co-chairs the Homeland Security Experts Group with former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.  She serves on the board of Iridium Communication Inc, a NASDAQ traded satellite communications company, and is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, the Advisory Board of the Munich Security Conference, the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission, the Presidential Debates Commission and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She is a member of the Defense Policy Board, the State Department Foreign Policy Board, and the Homeland Security Advisory Committee. Harman is a Trustee of the Aspen Institute and an Honorary Trustee at the University of Southern California. 

Her upcoming book, Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe, offers an insider's account of America's ineffectual approach to some of the hardest defense and intelligence issues in the three decades since the Cold War ended.

Originally from Los Angeles, she is a product of California public school, as well as a graduate of Smith College and Harvard Law School. 

Harman has participated in several events at The Common Good, including Combating Misinformation with Clint Watts and Cong. Jane Harman, and the “World View: Security Challenges & Opportunities” panel alongside Ambassadors Bill Burns and Nicholas Burns, moderated by Financial Times’ Edward Luce, at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards, 2019 and in the National Security Threats event alongside Michael Chertoff.

Congresswoman Harman currently serves as a member of The Common Good Honorary Advisory Board.

Read More:

• Who is Giuliani hoping to get dirt on in a trip to Ukraine?

• Jane Harman on global politics & the Mueller Report

• Jane Harman writing for Foreign Affairs, December 2020: How Biden Can Restore Faith in US Spy Agencies

• February 2021, interview: Jane Harman Steps Down: A Look Back on a Decade of Leadership and Achievement