Strategic Council
The Silverado Policy Accelerator’s Strategic Council comprises distinguished leaders and experts from various backgrounds and political affiliations, all united in their commitment to sustaining American prosperity and global leadership. The Council offers Silverado invaluable advice, guidance, and support, helping to drive its mission and enhance its diverse programs and activities.
honorary chairs

General David Petraeus (US Army, Ret.)
Partner, KKR and Chairman KKR Global Institute

The Hon. Malcolm Turnbull
Australia’s 29th Prime Minister
strategic advisors
Robert D. Atkinson
Founder and President, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Michael Allen
Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies
Heather Adkins
Senior Director of Information Security at Google
Thomas P. Bossert
President, TrinityCyber, Inc.
Jeremy Bash
Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies
George David Banks
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
Eliot Cohen
Professor, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Nicholas Consonery
Executive Director, The Eurasia Group
Wendy Cutler
Vice President, the Asia Society Policy Institute
Richard Danzig
Former Secretary of the Navy; Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Ivo Daalder
President, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs
John Demers
Former Assistant Attorney General
Robert Ghilduta
President of Nuand LLC
Mark Galeotti
Principal Director, Mayak Intelligence
Steve Glickman
Founder and CEO, Develop LLC
Jamieson Greer
Partner, King & Spalding
Jason Healey
Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs
Jennifer Hillman
Professor of Practice, Georgetown Law Center
Jane Harman
Distinguished Scholar & President Emerita, Wilson International Center for Scholars
Richard H. Ledgett, Jr.
CEO, The Ledgett Group
Jamil Jaffer
Founder and Executive Director, the National Security Institute; Vice President, IronNet Cybersecurity
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
University Distinguished Service Professor emeritus and former Dean of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Sarah Marie Jordaan
Associate Professor, McGill University
Sandra Joyce
Executive Vice President, Mandiant Intelligence
Kate Kalutkiewicz
Senior Managing Director, McLarty Associates
Sean Kanuck
Founder and CEO of EXEDEC
Ken Levinson
Chief Executive Officer, Washington International Trade Association (WITA)
Mark Linscott
Senior Advisor, The Asia Group; Senior Fellow, the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center
Jeanette Manfra
Director for Risk and Compliance, Google Cloud
Robin Millican
Sr. Director U.S. Policy & Advocacy, Breakthrough Energy
Keith Mularksi
Managing Director, Ernst & Young LLP
Nazak Nikakhtar
Partner, Wiley Rein LLP
Scott N. Paul
President, the Alliance for American Manufacturing
Katharina Kummer Peiry
Owner and Principal, Kummer EcoConsult
Jennifer Prescott
Director, Amazon Web Services
Catrina Rorke
Senior Vice President for Policy and Research, the Climate Leadership Council
Matthew Rojansky
President and Chief Executive Officer, The U.S. Russia Foundation.
Matthew Reisman
Director, Director of Privacy and Data Policy, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Kristi M. Rogers
Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Principal to Principal (P2P)
Nadia Schadlow
Founder, Scout Strategy Group LLC
Chad Sweet
Co-Founder & CEO, The Chertoff Group
Terence P. Stewart
Former Managing Partner, Law Offices of Stewart and Stewart
Matthew Spence
Managing Director and Global Head of Venture Capital Banking, Barclays
Marie O’Neill Sciarrone
Chief Executive Officer, Tribal Tech
Michael R. Wessel
President, The Wessel Group Incorporated
Amy Zegart
Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Senior Fellow, the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies