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
Alex Perkins
Principal, Mehlman Consulting
Scott N. Paul
President, the Alliance for American Manufacturing
Jennifer Prescott
Director, Amazon Web Services
Rich Powell
Chief Executive Officer , Clean Energy Buyers Association
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