Towsley Policymaker in Residence Javed Ali has been sought-after by news outlets around the world for his expertise in the wake of the attack on the Capitol.
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The National
While the purge disrupted communication among extremist...
Since 2002, the Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence Program has brought national and international leaders to campus as Ford School faculty.
For the winter 2021 semester, the Ford School welcomes two additional...
Ford School Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence Javed Ali said the political violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 followed a tumultuous and politically-polarizing year in Michigan. He told Bridge the chaos was driven in many ways by the...
In an essay in Defense One, Javed Ali and co-author Adam Maruyama argue that the next step in improving the U.S. national focus on cybersecurity should be acting on a long-debated proposal to split the job of leading the NSA and Cybercom.
"From...
Javed Ali tells the Washington Post that the fact that the government is grappling with a major series of cyber intrusions should not be an impediment to splitting the NSA and Cybercom. “Splitting the responsibilities allows NSA to assume the role...
If the hacks can be tied back to Moscow, they are just the latest in a string of significant and aggressive cyber operations perpetrated by elements of the Russian government against local, state, and federal governments and corporate entities. “We...
"It raises serious questions about the level of US defensive measures against cyber-attacks, as the vulnerabilities exploited in this latest attack crossed over into both private industry cyber tools and federal ones--neither of which were able to...
"Beyond the operations in the Middle East, there is the potential for the Quds Force to consider attacks against U.S. or Israeli targets in other parts of the world," Ali writes. "As history has shown with Iran, any action the supreme leader takes...
Any delay in giving the incoming Biden administration access to the President’s Daily Brief and other national security information and resources compromises the nation’s safety, according to a letter written to Emily Murphy, the Administrator of...
Oct 30, 2020Feds arrest leader of white supremacy group who ran 'hate camp' in Michigan
“This case is very serious and it’s indicative of the threat, not only from this particular group, but the broader one (from domestic terrorists.) We’re not going to see the last of these,” Ford school Towsley Policymaker in Residence Javed Ali told...
Ford School Towsley Policymaker in Residence Javed Ali has spent years working on security issues, and in particular the threat of domestic terrorism. In the wake of the announcement of the arrest of 13 men in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan...
"There's nothing illegal about being highly radicalized or having some of these, we would consider, some dangerous ideas in their heads or even shared between members. So, this is a real challenge on the detection and then disruption perspective,"...
Disinformation in sub-Saharan Africa, money laundering in the Western Hemisphere, space diplomacy, China’s domestic drug problem and international hostage negotiation are real-world issues that students will explore as the Ford School’s Weiser...
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), John Ratcliffe, recently announced that he would not be briefing Congress in person about security threats to the upcoming elections. Javed Ali, Ford School Towsley Policymaker in...
In February 2019, Hardy Vieux (MPP/JD '97) traveled to Tijuana, Mexico, to better understand the needs of asylum seekers at the United States’ southern border. That trip laid the foundation for a program to help people navigate the process, at the...
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center highlights an array of threats to Americans that could come from cyberattacks by U.S. adversaries, including Russia, China and Iran. According to the government's experts, these countries and...
As the United States grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are looking to recent historical crises to provide insights into the challenges we currently face. Javed Ali, Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School, wrote an opinion...
Ford School Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence Javed Ali shared his thoughts about the recent shakeup in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in a February 21, 2020 post in The Hill titled “Storm clouds loom as Trump...
The Hill recently featured Ford School faculty expertise on domestic and international security and counterterrorism. Javed Ali, Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School, discusses domestic terrorism and the United States’ role in Iranian...
After two mass shootings the weekend of August 3, 2019, Javed Ali joined with other former senior directors for counterterrorism at the National Security Council in a statement on domestic terrorism. The statement read in part “it has become...
The Easter bombings in Sri Lanka have been claimed by the Islamic State, despite the formal borders of the caliphate no longer holding Iraq and Syria. On April 24, 2019, Washington Post reporters Shane Harris, Ellen Nakashima, Souad Mekhennet, and...
The Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence Program, established in 2002, pops the academic bubble in its promotion of student, faculty, and policymaker exchange by bringing individuals with significant national and...
Broderick D. Johnson (JD '83) will join the Ford School as the winter 2019 Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence, teaching a course on "Lobbying and Mass Incarceration." He follows Dudley Benoit (MPP ‘95) who taught...
Gretchen Whitmer, a former Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School, has filed the paperwork required to launch her Michigan gubernatorial campaign.
Governor Rick Snyder steps down from the post due to term limits in 2018,...
Ford School alumnus Hardy Vieux (MPP/JD ’97) has returned for the winter 2017 semester to serve as the Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence.
Vieux is the legal director at Human Rights First, “an independent...
The Ford School community will welcome former Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council James Kvaal as a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence this fall. The White House announced Mr. Kvaal's departure this morning,...
Wayne Meyer, Lori Chatman, Roberto Barragan, Lela Wingard, and moderator Dudley Benoit discuss the community development finance field. 2017 Towsley Lecture. November, 2017.
Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Lecture Series,
Policy Talks @ the Ford School
Join us for a discussion on elections and campaigns, in 2020 and beyond. The discussion will include Katie Packer Beeson, former deputy campaign manager for the Romney/Ryan campaign in 2012 and founding partner of Burning Glass Consulting, and Greg Schultz, general election strategist and senior advisor for the 2020 Biden campaign. Broderick Johnson, Towsley Policymaker in Residence, will moderate.
Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Lecture Series,
Policy Talks @ the Ford School,
STPP Lecture Series
In this conversation, Paul Abbate, Associate Deputy Director of the FBI, and David Levy, Vice President of Amazon Web Services, will discuss some of the challenges in addressing current cybersecurity threats, formulating policy, and calibrating responses.
