Joel Meyer is a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security covering national security strategy, defense strategy and innovation, and homeland security. He is also the president of public sector at Domino Data Lab, provider of the Enterprise AI platform, and is a commissioner on the Atlantic Council’s Commission on Software-Defined Warfare. 

Previously, Meyer served on the Biden-Harris transition team, as the day one chief of staff of the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans and as DHS’s deputy assistant secretary for strategic initiatives. In this role, Meyer led efforts to produce DHS’s first Quadrennial Homeland Security Review in nine years, restructure the department’s activities to combat targeted violence, implement the department’s first artificial intelligence task force, and conduct an organization-wide analysis of nation-state threats to homeland security. He also led DHS’s input on the 2022 National Security Strategy.  

Meyer previously served in several US government capacities, including as a director on the White House National Security Council staff focusing on countering violent extremism online and at DHS’s Office of the Secretary as senior advisor to the coordinator for counterterrorism, focused on countering terrorist threats to the homeland emanating from abroad. He has also practiced law and worked at two venture capital-backed artificial-intelligence technology companies.