Brad Belzak

Brad Belzak is a nonresident senior fellow at the Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He is the founder of Acuity Global Partners, an advisory firm serving family offices, high-net-worth clients, and technology companies on resilience and continuity planning, frontier market research, and overseas operations. He is also a commissioner for the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission.

Belzak was previously the senior vice president and chief of staff of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, a Senior Executive Service appointment. At the Pentagon, he served as the director of homeland defense integration, directing North American air security policy and crisis response to aviation and drone threats, owning the department’s counter-small-UAS portfolio, and leading the US policy response to the Chinese surveillance balloon incident. He led risk, compliance, and investigative engagements for government and multinational clients in highly regulated environments at Ernest & Young and was confirmed by the DC Council as chairman of the District’s Homeland Security Commission, co-authoring the city’s cybersecurity and mass care reports.

While at Deloitte, he built business continuity solutions for the Thai government during the 2011 floods and stood up the crisis response office serving clients affected by Hurricane Sandy. On the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, he conducted emergency response and aviation security oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and co-wrote the Aviation Security Innovation and Reform Act. His DHS career spanned intelligence, disaster response policy, and legislative affairs, including senior policy advisor developing disaster response policy, deputy regional director in the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding, and deputy chief of staff and first responder at the Federal Emergency Management Agency during Hurricane Katrina recovery.

Belzak holds a master’s degree in security and resiliency from Northeastern University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Elon University. He is a certified fraud examiner and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.