Professor Juliette Kayyem
“The Risk Environment in 2026"
MARCH 11, 2026 | 7:00 - 8:00 AM ET VIRTUAL
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The Risk Environment in 2026 is the second program in the Speakers Bureau Spotlight Series.
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 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. Prof Kayyem also serves as a national security analyst for CNN where she has been described as CNN’s “go to” for disasters. A contributor to The Atlantic, she has a weekly security segment on NPR’s Boston station WGBH.
Prof Kayyem teaches courses on International and Global Affairs and Mitigating and Managing a Crisis at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Her 2022 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.”
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