Brodi Kotila is an American political scientist who previously served as Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Plans, Analysis and Risk and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.[1][2]

Dr.
Brodi Kotila
Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Plans, Analysis and Risk, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
In office
2015–2017
Preceded byAlan D. Cohn
Succeeded byChad Wolf
Personal details
EducationUniversity of California
Yale Law School
Harvard University
OccupationPolitics, Lawyer

She received a PhD and master's degree in political science from Harvard University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.[3][4]

She is currently a Senior Political Scientist at the nonpartisan RAND Corporation.

Career

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Brodi previously served as Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of the United States Army, Special Counsel to the Department of Defense General Counsel, and lead for veterans and military family policy at the White House Domestic Policy Council before joining the Department of Homeland Security; she was also an officer in the United States Navy Reserve and a member of the Bar Association in Massachusetts.[5]

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  1. ^ "Qwoted - Event: 14th Homeland Security Week 2019". app.qwoted.com. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  2. ^ "Agenda.pdf" (PDF). Asdevents.
  3. ^ "Brodi Kotila - Profile". www.rand.org. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  4. ^ "Dr. Brodi J. Kotila". Department of Homeland Security. 2015-10-27. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  5. ^ Printing, Congress (U S. ) Joint Committee on (2016-04-15). Official Congressional Directory 114th Congress, 2015-2016, Convened January 2015. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-16-092996-0.