Speakers Bureau Spotlight: The Risk Environment for 2026 with Juliette Kayyem

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 7:00 am ET

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Join the HAA Speakers Bureau on Wednesday, March 11 at 7:00-8:00 am ET to learn from the Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security, Juliette Kayyem. Her lecture, "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 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.