Kiersten Todt Coon - Managing Partner
Kiersten Todt Coon oversees global operations and develops risk and crisis management solutions for infrastructure, crisis management, cyber security, and homeland security clients in both the public and private sectors. She has served in both the executive and legislative branches of government.
Prior to joining Good Harbor, Ms. Coon worked for Business Executives for National Security (BENS) and was responsible for BENS' work on integrating the private sector into emergency management capabilities and developed and executed port and cyber security projects. Before BENS, she was a consultant for Sandia National Laboratories and worked with the California Governor's Office and Bay Area Economic Forum to develop the homeland security preparedness plan for the Bay Area. While living in California, Ms. Coon was an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University.
Ms. Coon has served as a Professional Staff Member on the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (now the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs); she worked for the Committee Chairman, Senator Joseph Lieberman, and was responsible for drafting the science and technology, infrastructure protection and emergency preparedness directorates of the legislation to create the Department of Homeland Security. She also served as Senator Lieberman's Appropriations Director.
Before working in the Senate, Ms. Coon served in Vice President Gore's domestic policy office and was responsible for coordinating federal resources with locally-defined needs, specifically focusing on the energy crisis in California and housing issues. She was also a senior policy analyst at the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and advised Director Barry R. McCaffrey on demand-reduction issues.
Ms. Coon graduated from Princeton University, with a degree in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She holds a master's degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and was selected to be a Presidential Management Fellow in 1999. She earned the Outstanding Service Award at ONDCP and is currently a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
