<p> Lt Col Darryl Williams</p><p>Lt Colonel Darryl Williams, United States Air Force, is the Director of the Partnership to Defeat Terrorism (PTDT); part of US Strategic Command’s Global Innovation and Strategy Center. The Partnership to Defeat Terrorism is a highly successful public-private information sharing architecture that has been aiding the Department of Defense, US Strategic Command, and the private sector since November of 2001. PTDT partners all elements of national power (e.g., military, diplomatic, private sector, academia, media) into a coordinated front against terrorism and the global support mechanisms which support terrorism.</p><p>Lt Colonel Williams is an internationally-recognized expert in terrorism’s use of global infrastructures and in global public-private information sharing architectures. Lt Col Williams has a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting, a Master of Business Administration (International Finance), and a Master of Military Arts and Strategy. He has chaired numerous US efforts investigating and correcting vulnerabilities in US and global infrastructures, both prior to and after the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. </p><p>Gordon Lederman</p><p>Gordon Lederman, Esq., serves on the Special Bipartisan Staff hired by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and was one of the lead Senate staff drafters and negotiators of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Gordon previously spent close to five years as an Associate in the National Security Law and Policy Practice Group at the law firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC. The author of several publications, Gordon is a magna cum laude graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and a former clerk for the Honorable Robert Cowen of the U.S. Third Circuit Court Appeals. Currently, Gordon is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is Co-Chair of the Council’s Washington Term Member Advisory Committee.</p><p>Gordon Lederman was also a Counsel for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "911 Commission"). He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security. He is the author of several publications concerning national security, including Reorganizing the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1986, foreword by former Senator Sam Nunn) and Combating Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Strategy: A Comprehensive Strategy (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2001). (co-author). </p>