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 Michael A. Vatis
Executive Director
Markle Foundation: Task Force on National Security in the Information Age
Michael Vatis is executive director of the Task Force and an attorney with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson. From 2001 to 2003, he served as director of the
Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College, a national counterterrorism and cyber security research center, and as the founding chairman of the
Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), a consortium of leading cyber security research organizations. From 1998 to 2001, Vatis was the founding
director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), an interagency organization responsible for detecting, warning of, and responding to cyber attacks.
From 1994 to 1998, he served as associate deputy attorney general and deputy director of the Executive Office for National Security at the Department of Justice, where
he was responsible for coordinating the department's activities in the areas of counterterrorism, counterintelligence, infrastructure protection, and cyber crime. From
1993 to 1994, Vatis was special counsel at the Department of Defense. Vatis has also served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and for then-Judge
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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