Bio

• Age: 69
• Education:  University of Michigan, MA (1971); Dartmouth College, BA (1964)
• From: Washington, DC
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: Male

Beers is a longtime anti-terrorism expert who spent 35 years as a senior civil servant, including more than a decade at the White House National Security Council and as an assistant secretary of state under President Clinton. In 2003 — five days before the start of the Iraq War — Beers stepped down from President George W. Bush's National Security Council where he was serving as the senior director for combating terrorism.

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Obama Campaign/Transition

• Obama Transition Team, led Department of Homeland Security review team

Last Job

• National Security Network, founder

Other Jobs

• Kerry-Edwards 2004, national security adviser
• White House National Security Council, special assistant to President Bush and senior director for combatting terrorism
• State Department, assistant secretary for international narcotics and law enforcement
• White House National Security Council, director for counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics; director for peacekeeping; senior director for intelligence programs

Connections

• Former Clinton appointee(s)
• Veteran(s)

Financial Disclosure

View Rand Beers's official financial disclosure statements, which describe the sources, types and amounts of income earned in a given year.

• 2009 (PDF)