Richard A. Clarke is chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, LLC, a firm specializing in security risk management, and a member of the faculty at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Clarke is an internationally recognized expert on counterterrorism and security – homeland, national and cyber.

An advisor to three presidents, over the course of 11 years he held the titles of special assistant to the president for global affairs, national coordinator for security and counterterrorism and special advisor to the president for cyber security. Previously Mr. Clarke served for 19 years at the Pentagon, in intelligence, and with the Department of State. During the Reagan administration, he was deputy assistant secretary of state for intelligence. In the administration of George H. W. Bush, as assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, he coordinated diplomatic efforts to support the 1990 - 1991 Gulf War and security arrangements afterwards.

Mr. Clarke has written a number of books and articles on security and policy, including Your Government Failed You, Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, Breakpoint, and The Scorpion's Gate.