Business and Security Series
A Salon Style Project
The CNS Business and Security Program facilitates discussion regarding the private sector and its intersection with national security, human rights, and global issues.
Affiliated Events
The Unseen Challenges: Lessons Learned from the Mis/Disinformation Age
Monday October 24th 2022 | 12:30-1:30 PM
A conversation with Scott Helfstein and LTC (R) Matt Dreher
The Potential Market Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War
Friday, March 4th 2022 | 12:30-1:30 PM
A conversation with Scott Helfstein, Aleksandar Matovski, and Jack Malvey
How to Assess Infrastructure as a National Security Issue
Thursday March 18, 2021 | 2:00 - 3:00 PM
A conversation with Scott Helfstein and Brian Harrell
Supply Chains and U.S. China Relations — A Challenge to U.S. Business?
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020 | 12:00-1:00 PM
A conversation with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Scott Helfstein, and Karen J. Greenberg,
Trade, China, and Great Power Rivalry
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 | 12:00-1:30 PM
A conversation with Scott Helfstein
Business, Human Rights, Due Diligence and Accountability
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2o19 | 12:00-1:30 PM
A Conversation with Douglass Cassel
Rethinking Classified Information Sharing With the Private Sector
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 | 12:00-2:00PM
A conversation with
Rob Knake, and Karen J. Greenberg,
Proxy Challenges: Lessons Learned from the Cyber Realm
Thursday, April 9, 2019 | 12:00-2:00PM
A conversation with
Jen Easterly and Eric Goldstein
Affiliates
Jacqueline L. Barkett is a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division, Counterterrorism Section. Ms. Barkett joined the section through the U.S. Department of Justice Honor’s Program. As a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., Ms. Barkett prosecuted and/or investigated national security cases, firearm and drug offenses. During her time at the D.C. USAO, Ms. Barkett prosecuted a Hezbollah financier for a money laundering scheme involving the evasion of U.S. sanctions. Following her time with the D.C. USAO, Ms. Barkett was a Counselor to the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security where she provided confidential, high-level legal and policy support for the National Security Division’s Assistant Attorney General on complex and highly sensitive national security programs. Most recently, as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the National Security and Cybercrime section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Ms. Barkett has investigated federal crimes ranging from material support to terrorism, terrorism transcending national boundaries and cyber matters. Prior to her DOJ service, Ms. Barkett worked at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy and for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Beirut, Lebanon.
Scott Helfstein, PhD is the Executive Director of Thematic Investing at ProShares. Helfstein was formerly the Co-Head of Market Research and Strategy as well as Head of Thematic Portfolios at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. In this role, he was responsible for developing and communicating global investment advice as well as building and managing thematic portfolios focused on technological disruption. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at The George Washington University (GW) and Auburn University, and an Adjunct Scholar at the Modern War Institute at West Point. Before joining Morgan Stanley Wealth management, Scott was Senior Investment Strategist and Deputy to the Chief Market Strategist at BNY Mellon Investment Management leading global macro and relative value analysis. He served as the Director of Research at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center and as Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at the United States Military Academy from 2008 to 2014.