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Juliette N. Kayyem is presently the national security and foreign policy columnist for the Boston Globe and serves on the faculty at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She most recently served for President Obama as Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. She has spent over 15 years in senior positions in state and federal government, including as Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s homeland security advisor, a legal advisor to US Attorney General Janet Reno, and a congressional appointee to the National Commission on Terrorism. She also had leadership positions in major crises, including H1N1, the Haiti earthquake, and the BP oil spill. Ms. Kayyem is the author of numerous books and articles on counterterrorism and national security and served as a national security analyst for NBC news. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She is married to David Barron, a Harvard Law School professor, and has three children.