Speaker Series
The Homeland/Corporate Security and Leadership department sponsors a Security Studies Speakers Series which features notable speakers from the professional security industry. Presentations discuss current events, threats, and trends related to their fields. These events provide an opportunity for students to interact with experienced professionals and gain insight into future career paths.
Past speakers include:
- Homeland Security Subject Matter Expert, Director of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Defense Programs
- Director Stakeholder Engagement-DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
- Assistant Superintendent, FEMA Emergency Management Institute
- Global Security Analyst, Human Trafficking
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- Lt. Col. Robert Darling, “24 Hours Inside the Bunker” 9/11 and the White House
- BSA/AML Compliance Officer
- Managing Partner, President and CEO of C4CS
- Senior National Security Advisor of Security Community Network
- Chief Operating Officer, National Weather Service
- Senior Business Advisor for Schneider Downs
- Global Security Manager for Alcoa
- RAND Corporation, Homeland Security Operations Analysis Center
- Supervisory Special Agents, DHS, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
- Risk Analyst, First National Bank
- Chief Technical Officer, National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA)
- Director, Safety, Risk and Security, Boyers Global Safety, Risk & Security Iron Mountain
- Senior Field Intelligence Office DHS Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
- Special Agent, US Postal Service, Office of the Inspector General
- Former CIA Agent, Whistleblowing
- CPP Director of Security for the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and Fallingwater
- Intelligence Analyst, Western Pennsylvania All Hazards Fusion Center (WPAHFC) Region 13
- Intelligence Analyst-PA Criminal Intelligence Center (PaCIC)
- Integration Expert, Tyco Simplex Grinnell
- Supervisory Intelligence Analyst and FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force
- Chief Security Officer of Arconic (former CSO of Alcoa and Director of Corporate Security at Bausch and Lomb)
- Special Agent, Weapons of Mass Destruction-FBI, Pittsburgh Field Office
- Protective Security Advisor DHS Cybersecurity & Infrastructure, Pittsburgh Region
- Director, Safety, Risk & Security at Iron Mountain
- Special Agent-Federal Bureau of Investigation, Domestic Terrorism
- Acting Section Chief for the FBI’s National Security Branch
- Vice President, ASIS Pittsburgh Chapter -Women in Security
- Chief Executive Officer of Girl Security- “Building Future Generations of
- Women of National Security Leaders,”
- COO National Weather Service
- Special Agent FBI, China
- Director and Co-Founder of Institute to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation
- Attorney, Labor Trafficking
- Practitioner Associate, University of Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking
- Investigators, DHS Center for Countering Human Trafficking