BARBARA NADEL – Senior Advisor

Barbara A. Nadel, FAIA, is a Senior Advisor at Good Harbor, specializing in security by design for critical infrastructure facilities, key assets, and iconic structures. She provides national and international clients expert advice on security reviews, programming, master planning, design, pre-construction, operational analysis, and value engineering.

Ms. Nadel is editor-in-chief of Building Security: Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design (McGraw-Hill, 2004), featuring over 50 contributing architects, engineers, attorneys, and allied professionals, and translated to Chinese. She received the 2005 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement for advancing the architectural profession and the 2003 Milka Bliznakov Prize from the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA), for creating this security resource.

In 2008, Ms. Nadel was appointed as AIA's representative to the U.S. Department of State's Overseas Building Operations (OBO) Industry Advisory Panel. The Advisory Panel provides the OBO Director with the latest methods, concepts, best practices, and ideas to ensure that safe, secure, and functional facilities are provided for U.S. diplomatic missions worldwide.

Ms. Nadel was 2001 AIA National Vice President, twice AIA New York Regional Director on the national AIA Board of Directors, AIA Advertising Committee chair (created a multimillion dollar print and radio advertising campaign); 2002 AIA Academy on Architecture for Justice chair, and AIA New York Chapter Health Committee chair for nine years. She was elected to the AIA College of Fellows in 2000.

As an accomplished practitioner and journalist, Ms. Nadel's work on design, security, sustainability, and technology has appeared in over 100 publications, including Architectural Record, Architecture: Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future (AIA, 2008), Livable Communities 101 (AIA, 2005), and Time Saver Standards (McGraw-Hill, 2001). She's been quoted in over 100 publications and media outlets, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, Homeland Security Television, Fox News Channel, CNN, Chicago Tribune, La Libre Belgique, U.K.'s Financial Times, Buildings, and others.

Her honor awards for outstanding leadership and impact on the architectural profession include both the AIA New York State's Del Gaudio Service Award and President's Award. Her work was nominated for the Jesse Neal Business Journalism Award by Architectural Record.

Ms. Nadel graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Fine Arts) and the State University of New York at Binghamton (Bachelor of Arts, Pre-Architecture), and studied architecture at Cornell University. She has taught design and is a frequent speaker, keynoter, and awards juror.

KEITH SCHWALM – Senior Advisor

Keith T. Schwalm joined Good Harbor after serving as a Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service for eight years. His assignments with the Secret Service focused on electronic and high-tech investigation and protection missions within the Secret Service. Mr. Schwalm served as a member of the Electronic Crime Special Agent Program, with assignments in the Albuquerque Resident Office, Financial Crimes Division, Office of Congressional Affairs and the Homeland Security Division.

Mr. Schwalm was detailed to the position of Director of Infrastructure Protection to the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board at the White House from 2001–2002. He was responsible for coordinating efforts with the financial services sector and physical security of cyber assets working groups. Among his duties, Mr. Schwalm participated in the drafting of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, U.S.-Mexico bilateral discussions on cyber and physical infrastructure dependencies, and developing policy to combat the insider threat.

Mr. Schwalm was then detailed as Director of U.S. Secret Service and Cyber Security R&D Portfolios for the Science and Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security. In this assignment, Mr. Schwalm initiated cyber security research projects with the InfoSec Research Council, the Cyber Defense Technology Experimental Research Network, the Griffiss Institute, the National Threat Assessment Center, and National Institute of Standards and Technology. Mr. Schwalm created the foundational model for the Department of Homeland Security cyber security research center.

Prior to his service with the Secret Service, Mr. Schwalm worked as an Apple Systems Engineer and Technician supporting the Los Alamos National Laboratory contract. Mr. Schwalm also served as a Hospital Corpsman with the U.S. Navy from 1989–1993 and served in Operation Desert Shield/Storm.

Mr. Schwalm has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of New Mexico and an M.S. in Computer Science from James Madison University. Mr. Schwalm is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional – Information Systems Security Management Professional. Mr. Schwalm is a certified New Mexico Department of Public Safety Instructor.

STEVEN SIMON – Senior Advisor

Steven Simon is a senior advisor to Good Harbor Consulting and an internationally recognized expert on counter-terrorism and national security. Mr. Simon advises Good Harbor clients in the areas of strategic planning, threat assessment and mitigation and management of foreign and defense policy processes.

Mr. Simon served at the White House for over five years as director for global issues and senior director for transnational threats. During this period, he was involved in U.S. counterterrorism policy and operations as well as security policy in the Near East and South Asia. These assignments followed a fifteen-year career at the U.S. Department of State, during which he coordinated diplomatic support for US military operations worldwide.

After leaving government service, Mr. Simon served for three years as the deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, until returning to the United States as the top Middle East analyst at the RAND Corporation.

Mr. Simon is now the Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Goldman Sachs visiting professor in public policy at Princeton University. He has co-authored the The Age of Sacred Terror (Random House, 2002), which won the prestigious Arthur Ross Book Award for best book on international affairs, and is widely regarded as the definitive account of al Qaeda’s origins. He is also coauthor of Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change (Oxford University Press, 2003). He coauthored several RAND publications including Building a Successful Palestinian State (Rand Corporation, 2005), The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State (Rand Corporation, 2005) and Trends and Future Challenges in the Greater Middle East (2008, publication pending). Most recently, he coauthored The Next Attack (Henry Holt, 2005), which examines the evolution of the jihad since September 11, 2001, and America's response, and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize in 2006. He is working on a new book, with Daniel Benjamin, on Muslim integration in Europe.

Mr. Simon has published in Time, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Times, Foreign Affairs, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, Survival, the National Interest, World Policy Journal, and other journals. He is a frequent guest on CNN, BBC, ABC, 60 Minutes, Nightline, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Fox, and NPR.

Mr. Simon has a BA from Columbia University in classics and Near Eastern languages, an MTS from the Harvard Divinity School, and an MPA from Princeton University. He was a university fellow at Brown University and an international affairs fellow at Oxford University.