R.P. Eddy, Executive Director, Center for Policing Terrorism

As Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism at the Manhattan Institute, R. P. Eddy founded and is Executive Director of the Center for Tactical Counterterrorism (CTCT) which focuses on the role of police in the fight against terror. Eddy also serves as Managing Director of Security Information Services (SIS), a division of Gerson Lehrman Group.

CTCT leverages a global network of premier counterterrorism experts and brings their collective experience to bear on the counterterror challenges of New York City. Eddy has worked with the New York Police Department, The Greek Government, the United Nations and various multinational corporations on terrorism and security issues. He is a founding member of ICTAC – The International Counter-Terrorism Academic Community.

Previously, Eddy served in various posts in the US Government National Security arena and as an United Nations Diplomat. Eddy was last Senior Policy Officer to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan where, amongst other work, he helped lead the Secretary-General’s initiatives to mobilize an international response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Prior to joining the UN, Eddy served variously as Director of Counterterrorism at the White House National Security Council; Chief of Staff to the US Ambassador to the UN, Richard Holbrooke; Senior Advisor for Intelligence and Counterterrorism to the Secretary of Energy, and as an US representative to international negotiations including the creation of the International Criminal Court and peace negotiations in Angola and Rwanda.

Eddy is a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, was awarded two Leland Fellowships, was selected as a Manfred-Wörner Scholar and as a Evangelische Akademie scholar. Eddy is renowned terrorism expert and has appeared on global television news programs including CBS News with Dan Rather during the September 11 terrorist attacks and regularly on Fox News and other major stations. Eddy has a BS in Neuroscience from Brown University.

Tim Connors, Director, Center for Policing Terrorism

Tim Connors is a graduate of West Point whose 19 years of service in the United States Army included command and staff assignments as an Infantry officer. Tim is a graduate of both the Army’s Ranger and Airborne Schools, and is the recipient of the Bronze Star Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal. Prior to joining the Manhattan Institute, Tim was an associate attorney with Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC in Syracuse, New York where his practice included secured transactions, corporate & security law, and education law. Tim continues to serve as a Civil Affairs officer in the Army Reserve and recently completed an assignment as the civil military officer in Konar Province, Afghanistan.

Usha Sutliff, Deputy Director, Center for Policing Terrorism

Usha Sutliff is Deputy Director of the Manhattan Institute's Center for Policing Terrorism (CPT).

CPT leverages a global network of premier counterterrorism experts and brings their collective experience to bear on the counterterrorism challenges of a core group of state and local law enforcement agencies. This intellect is turned into practical products, advice, and services.

Stationed in Los Angeles, Ms. Sutliff works with the Los Angeles Police Department's Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau. She manages projects, helps research and write analytical reports and other products, and connects the department with top experts in terrorism and counterterrorism to bolster its capacities in a number of areas. Her current projects include the development of a national counterterrorism academy for state and local law enforcement.

Previously, Ms. Sutliff worked as a communications specialist and print journalist. She has served as Associate Director of the University of Southern California's Media Relations unit and as a Field Deputy for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Bureau of Crime Prevention and Youth Services.

Ms. Sutliff spent years working as a professional journalist for organizations, including: the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather; City News Service, the largest regional wire service in the country; and the Pasadena Star-News. Her beats included law enforcement, civil courts, science, medicine and city government.

Ms. Sutliff holds a Bachelor of Science degree (cum laude) in communications with a minor in psychology from Boston University.

Heather Mac Donald, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal

Heather Mac Donald is a John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal.

Heather’s work at City Journal has canvassed a range of topics including policing and “racial” profiling, homelessness and homeless advocacy, educational policy, the New York courts, and business improvement districts. Ms. Mac Donald’s writings have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, The New Republic, Partisan Review, The New Criterion, Public Interest, and Academic Questions. Her book The Burden of Bad Ideas—a collection of essays from the pages of City Journal—details the effects of the sixties’ counterculture’s destructive march through America’s institutions. Her latest book, Are Cops Racist?—another City Journal anthology—investigates the workings of the police, the controversy over so-called racial profiling, and the anti-profiling lobby’s harmful effects on black Americans.

A non-practicing lawyer, Ms. Mac Donald has clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, has been an attorney-advisor in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and a volunteer with the National Resource Defense Fund in New York City. She has testified before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee of the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1998, she was appointed to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s task force on the City University of New York, thanks in large part to her City Journal essays on education. She is also a frequent guest on Fox News, CNN, and other television and radio programs.

Ms. Mac Donald received her B.A. in English from Yale University, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a Mellon Fellowship to Cambridge University, where she earned her M.A. in English and studied in Italy through a Clare College study grant. Her J.D. is from Stanford University Law School.

Heather Mac Donald lives and works in New York City.

George L. Kelling, Senior Fellow, Center for Civic Innovation

George L. Kelling is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, and a fellow in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Kelling has practiced social work as a child care worker, a probation officer, and has administered residential care programs for aggressive and disturbed youths. In 1972, he began work at the Police Foundation and conducted several large-scale experiments in policing, most notably the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment and the Newark Foot Patrol Experiment. The latter was the source of his contribution to his most familiar publication in the Atlantic, “Broken Windows,” with James Q. Wilson. During the late 1980s, Kelling developed the order maintenance policies in the New York City subway that ultimately led to radical crime reductions. Later he consulted with the New York City Police Department as well, especially in dealing with “squeegeemen.”

His most recent major publication is Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities, which he has published with his wife, Catherine M. Coles. Currently he is studying organizational change in policing and the development of comprehensive community crime prevention programs. He has two children and four grandchildren.

Kelling is a graduate of St. Olaf College (B.A.), the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (M.S.W.), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.).