Daniel B. Prieto is a Senior Fellow of the Homeland Security Center at the Reform Institute. Previously, he was Research Director of the Homeland Security Partnership Initiative and Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Mr. Prieto is co-author, with Stephen E. Flynn, of Neglected Defense: Mobilizing the Private Sector to Support Homeland Security, a special report from the Council on Foreign Relations. His commentary and analysis have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, USA Today, WashingtonPost.com, Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, The New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, MSNBC, CNN, FOX News, BBC, and NPR. Mr. Prieto serves on the Century Foundation homeland security task force, the Council on Foreign Relations working group on homeland security and the private sector, and as an associate member of Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.

Mr. Prieto has served on the professional staff of the Select Committee on Homeland Security in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a former technology-industry executive and investment banker, serving as a strategist or advisor on $150 billion in transactions. He is a past recipient of the International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Prieto is an honors graduate of Wesleyan University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).