Virtual Event: The Risk Environment in 2026
Learn from Juliette Kayyem, Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security
Join the Harvard Alumni Association Speakers Bureau to learn from Juliette Kayyem, homeland security and crisis management expert and the Robert and Renee Belfer Senior Lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Time: 7 to 8 am US Eastern Time
Register here: Harvard Alumni Speaker Association
Meet our Speaker
Juliette Kayyem AB '91, JD '95 is a national leader in homeland security and crisis management in academia, the private sector, government, and media.
She is currently the Robert and Renee Belfer Senior Lecturer and faculty chair of the Homeland Security and Security and Global Health Projects at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Kayyem also serves as a national security analyst for CNN, where she has been described as CNN's "go to" for disasters. A frequent contributor to The Atlantic, she has a weekly security segment on NPR's Boston station WGBH. Her most recent book, The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters, was described in a New Yorker profile as an "engagingly urgent blueprint for rethinking our approach to disaster preparedness and response."
Professor Kayyem teaches courses on International and Global Affairs and Mitigating and Managing a Crisis at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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