Hon. Jane Harman

Jane Harman served nine terms in Congress as Representative of the aerospace center of Los Angeles and was ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee after 9/11. She left the House in 2011, to become the first woman president and CEO of the Wilson Center and has been president emerita since 2021. Harman has served on numerous government advisory boards (Central Intelligence Agency, Director of National Intelligence, DoD, and State Department) and currently is a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and the NASA and DHS advisory councils. She chairs the Commission on the National Defense Strategy, cochairs the Board of Freedom House, and is a member the Aspen Strategy Group, the Munich Security Conference Executive Committee, Trilateral Commission, and the Board of Governors of the National Intelligence University. Harman’s book, Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2021