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Eric Rosenbach

Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Contact:
Telephone: 617-495-7747
Email: eric_rosenbach@ksg.harvard.edu

Experience

Eric Rosenbach is the Executive Director of Research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. In addition to managing all substantive research issues at the Belfer Center, Rosenbach leads projects focused on security issues in Pakistan and Afghanistan, intelligence and cyber security.  He also teaches a course on counterterrorism policy and national security law.

Prior to his work at the Belfer Center, Rosenbach was a professional staff member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and served as the national security advisor for U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel.

On the Intelligence Committee, Rosenbach provided oversight of the intelligence community's counterterrorism efforts.  Rosenbach led and authored two formal Senate Intelligence Committee investigations of prewar intelligence on Iraq, entitled Postwar Findings about Iraq's Links to Terrorism and Prewar Intelligence about Postwar Iraq.

In the private sector, Rosenbach previously worked as a vice president and chief security officer for the largest internet service provider in Europe.  He was responsible for all aspects of cyber-security, privacy and network operations.

Rosenbach served as an active-duty military intelligence officer supporting post-conflict operations in the Balkans.  As a commander, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. The Director of Central Intelligence named his unit as the top intelligence organization in the U.S. military for two consecutive years.

Rosenbach recently co-authored a book on the relationship between Congress and the Intelligence Community.  In 2008, he co-edited a book on military leadership entitled, In Pursuit of Excellence.  He co-authored a book on counter-terrorism policy with Richard A. Clarke and other experts in 2004.  His published opinion pieces have appeared in the Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun and Chicago Tribune.

He completed a juris doctor with a focus on national security law at Georgetown, masters in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and bachelor of arts at Davidson College. As a Fulbright Scholar in Eastern Europe, Rosenbach conducted post-graduate research on privatization programs.