May 16: Brian de Vallance, Special Counselor to Secretary Napolitano

The GTSC welcomes Brian de Vallance, Special Counselor to Secretary Janet Napolitano & Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute for a discussion of how DHS is integrating public safety issues among Federal agencies and Federal, State, Local and tribal governments.

About Brian

Brian de Vallance serves as Senior Counselor to Secretary Janet Napolitano and Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he works on issues relating to integration of public safety issues among the Federal departments and between the Federal and state, local, and tribal governments.  He also served as DHS’s Senior Accountable Officer for the implementation of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.  During his career, he has also served on the senior staff of two governors, a mayor, a state Supreme Court chief justice, and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, where he worked as the U.S. Department of Justice’s director of intergovernmental affairs and its Federalism officer.  He is a graduate of Brown University and Arizona State University’s College of Law, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the law journal.  Brian lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife, Jennifer, and their two sons.

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