Huban Gowadia

Huban Gowadia is the principal associate director for Global Security. She is responsible for programs that support international and domestic security, overseeing the Laboratory’s responsibilities in intelligence analysis, energy security, nonproliferation, nuclear counterterrorism and addressing chemical, biological and explosive threats. Gowadia has more than 20 years of experience supporting national security, and has served at the highest levels of government including multiple organizations in the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Aviation Administration. During the recent presidential transition, as acting administrator for the Transportation Security Administration, she led a workforce of more than 60,000 employees charged with protecting U.S. transportation systems and the traveling public. Prior to that she served as the presidentially appointed director of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office at the Department of Homeland Security. Gowadia received her bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Alabama and her doctorate in mechanical engineering from Pennsylvania State University.