Jane Holl Lute

Jane is President and Chief Executive Officer of the North American operations of SICPA security inks. Effective May 1, 2021, Jane will step down from this role and assume the Non-executive role of strategic director. From 2018 to 2021 Jane was a Non-executive Director of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc. In 2013 Jane established and led the Council on CyberSecurity, an independent, expert not-for-profit organisation with a global scope, committed to the security of an open internet. From 2015 to 2016 Jane held the role of Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Internet Security, an independent not-for-profit organisation that works to improve cyber-security worldwide. Prior to this, from 2009 to 2013 Jane served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, functioning as the Chief Operating Officer for the third largest U.S. Federal department. From 2003 to 2009 she held various roles at the United Nations, (Acting Under-Secretary and Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping, Field Support and Peacebuilding. She also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund). In recent years, Jane has returned to working with the United Nations, serving as a Special Adviser to the Secretary-General. Jane started her career in the U.S. Army in 1978, serving in Berlin during the Cold War, on the U.S. Central Command Staff during Operation Desert Storm, and on the National Security Council Staff under Presidents George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton. After retiring from the Army in 1994, she joined the Carnegie Corporation as an Executive Director of its Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.