NSLA Lunch Talk with Liz Sherwood Randall

Please join NSLA for a lunch talk with Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall on Monday, November 23. To help us manage attendance and plan our food order, please RSVP by 5pm on Thursday, November 19.

Dr. Sherwood-Randall is the 2026-2027 Ashton B. Carter Visiting Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, and the Director of the Initiative on Bioconvergence, Biosecurity, and Bioresilience (IB3), at the Harvard Kennedy School. From 2021-2025, she served as the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Deputy National Security Advisor. During the Obama Administration, Dr. Sherwood-Randall served as Deputy Secretary of Energy (2014-2017), White House Coordinator for Defense Policy, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction and Arms Control (2013-2014), and Senior Director for Europe on the National Security Council (2009-2013). She served in the Clinton Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia (1994-1996). Early in her career, she served as Chief Foreign Affairs and Defense Policy Advisor to Senator Joe Biden. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she graduated from Harvard College and received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University, where she completed her doctorate in international relations.

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