Visiting Professor, School of Law
Michele L. Malvesti serves as vice president at the Financial Integrity Network and as visiting professor of practice at the University of Texas.
She currently serves on the Director's Advisory Board for the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC); the Board of Directors for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation; and the Board of Advisors for the Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance. She is a member of the editorial board of the Army Cyber Institute's Cyber Defense Review.
Previously, Malvesti served as professor of practice in international security studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Before that she was a lecturer and senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. She also served as a vice president in the National Security Sector at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and with its successor company, Leidos. She previously had been a nonresident senior fellow with the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.
Malvesti served more than five years on the National Security Council staff during the George W. Bush administration, including as the senior director for combating terrorism strategy. She briefly returned to the White House in 2009 to co-chair the presidential study review that reformed the White House organization for homeland security and counterterrorism on behalf of the Obama administration.
She previously served as an analyst in the intelligence community.
Malvesti holds a Bachelor of Arts, Highest Distinction, in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Her political science degree was conferred with highest honors. She received both a Ph.D. in international relations and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.