Strategic Council

The Silverado Policy Accelerator’s Strategic Council comprises distinguished leaders and experts all united in their commitment to sustaining American prosperity and leadership on the global stage. The Council offers Silverado invaluable advice, guidance, and support, helping to drive its mission and enhance its programs and activities.

Silverado thanks its former Council Members Jamieson Greer and Jonathan Ward for their service prior to joining the administration.

Silverado honors the memory of Joseph Nye (1937 - 2025), who served on our Strategic Council until his passing.

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

Michael Allen

Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies

Robert D. Atkinson

Founder and President, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Heather Adkins

VP, Security Engineering, Google

George David Banks

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center

Jeremy Bash

Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies

Gregory Bowman

Chief Corporate Strategy Officer and Senior Vice President, National Security Solutions of Siemens Government Technologies

Matt Cronin

Senior National Security Advisor, Andreessen Horowitz

Dereck Chapman

Director of Trade Policy, Micron Technology

Nicholas Consonery

Executive Director, The Eurasia Group

Wendy Cutler

Vice President, the Asia Society Policy Institute

Heidi Crebo-Rediker

Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Drew DeLong

Principal, Kearney Foresight

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

Amanda Farrell

Senior Counsel, Legal Affairs & Trade General Motors

Mina Faltas

Founder and CEO, Washington Harbour Partners LP

Scott Friedman

Vice President of Government Affairs Altana

Jimmy Goodrich

Senior Fellow, IGCC Senior Advisor for Technology Analysis, RAND Corporation

Mark Galeotti

Principal Director, Mayak Intelligence

Robert Ghilduta

President of Nuand LLC

Jane Harman

Distinguished Scholar & President Emerita, Wilson International Center for Scholars

Andrew Holland

CEO, Fusion Industry Association

Jason Healey

Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs

Jennifer Hillman

Professor of Practice, Georgetown Law Center

Jamil Jaffer

Founder and Executive Director, the National Security Institute; Vice President, IronNet Cybersecurity

Sandra Joyce

Executive Vice President, Mandiant Intelligence

Kate Kalutkiewicz

Senior Managing Director, McLarty Associates

Mark Linscott

Senior Advisor, The Asia Group; Senior Fellow, the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center

Ken Levinson

Chief Executive Officer, Washington International Trade Association (WITA)

Travis Mosier

Executive Advisor for Technology Partnerships, Public Policy and Strategy, mySilicon Compass, LLC,

Tara C. McFeely

Adjunct Professor, Master of Science in Foreign Service Program, Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

Robin Millican

Director of Research Programs and Strategic Partnerships, Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP)

Mark Montgomery

Senior Director, Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Jeanette Manfra

Director for Risk and Compliance, Google Cloud

Nazak Nikakhtar

Partner, Wiley Rein LLP

Rich Powell

Chief Executive Officer , Clean Energy Buyers Association

Alex Perkins

Principal, Mehlman Consulting

Scott N. Paul

President, the Alliance for American Manufacturing

Jennifer Prescott

Director, Amazon Web Services

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

Catrina Rorke

Senior Vice President for Policy and Research, the Climate Leadership Council

Kristi M. Rogers

Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Principal to Principal (P2P)

Jordan Schneider

Founder, ChinaTalk Institute

Matthew Spence

Managing Director and Global Head of Venture Capital Banking, Barclays

Nadia Schadlow

Founder, Scout Strategy Group LLC

Chad Sweet

Co-Founder & CEO, The Chertoff Group

Matt Sloustcher

Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs & Chief Communications Officer MP Materials

Dawn Shackleford

President, Looking Glass Trade, LLC

Chris Toffales

CTC Aero, LLC, President and Managing Director

Evan Wolff

Partner, Akin Washington

Michael R. Wessel

President, The Wessel Group Incorporated