Janice Kephart is a founder,
managing director (policy) and owner of Identity Strategy Partners and
recipient of the 2015 Women in Biometrics Award, one of five women from over 50
nominated (Sept. 2015). She is a former 9/11 Commission counsel responsible for
many of the terrorist travel recommendations in the 9/11 Final Report and
attending Terrorist Travel monograph. Ms. Kephart served as a strategic advisor
to the DHS Assistant Secretary for Policy where she supported implementation
and stakeholder engagement of the 9/11 Commission border recommendations she
had co-authored, including those pertaining to terrorist travel and
identity assurance.
She is responsible for buzz
phrases such as "terrorist travel" and "assuring people are who
they say they are” and recommendations including biometric verification of
identity and minimum standards for breeder documents, as well as passport
requirements for all persons entering the U.S. Her visionary ability to bridge
technical advancements with law and policy have resulted in requests to testify
before Congress 19 times, as an independent thought leader and policy driver
that include biometric exit, passport and driver license security, biometric
border solutions, and visa requirements.
She was invited and spoke before
the United Nations National Security Council on terrorist travel and has served
twice on the Senate Judiciary Committee as Terrorism and Technology counsel and
as a 2013 Immigration Reform Special Counsel. She was formerly founder/CEO of a
leading trade organization, the Secure Identity & Biometrics Association
(SIBA) and Americas Director for international border organization BORDERPOL.
She spent five years as national security director at a DC think tank and
developed/hosted digital homeland security radio show. Janice has hundreds of
appearances in international media. For the past year, Janice has served on
IDGA's biometrics and homeland security advisory boards, serving also as chair
and co-chair.
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