Roger Cressey is senior vice president at Booz Allen. He was formerly President and founder of Good Harbor Consulting, LLC, a security and risk management consulting firm based in Arlington, Virginia, and a former fellow at The Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law.
Prior to starting Good Harbor, Mr. Cressey served in senior cyber security and counterterrorism positions in the Clinton and Bush administrations. At the White House, he was the Deputy for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council staff from November 1999 to November 2001. He was responsible for the coordination and implementation of U.S. counterterrorism policy and managed the U.S. government response to multiple terrorism incidents, including the millennium terror alert, the USS Cole attack, and the September 11th attacks. For the past six years, he has been an on-air counterterrorism analyst for NBC News, appearing frequently on NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, and MSNBC. He is also regularly interviewed on radio and is quoted in U.S. and international media publications.
Prior to his White House service, Mr. Cressey served in the Department of Defense, where he worked on U.S. defense strategy and the review of the Pentagon’s war plans. From 1991–1995, he served in the Department of State working on Middle East security issues, including serving a member of the U.S. delegation to the multilateral track of the Arab-Israeli peace process talks. His overseas experience includes serving as a political military officer with the U.S. embassy in Israel and with UN peacekeeping operations in Somalia and the former Yugoslavia. While in the former Yugoslavia, he was part of a United Nations team that planned the successful capture of the first individual indicted for war crimes in Croatia. From 2001–2006, he taught a graduate course on U.S. counterterrorism policy at Georgetown University. Mr. Cressey received his B.A. in political science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and an M.A. in security policy studies from The George Washington University. He is the recipient of the State Department’s Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards and the Defense Department’s Exceptional Civilian Service Award.
Posts:
What Is “Domestic Terrorism”?, March 9th, 2010
The Threat in the Sahel, March 25th, 2010
Bin Laden and the KSM Trial, March 26th, 2010
Killing Anwar al-Awlaki?, April 9th, 2010
Advances in the Predator Program, April 29th, 2010
