Under the leadership of its Chairman, Miles Prentice, the Center for Security Policy’s Board of Regents has become one of the organization’s most formidable force-multipliers.  Since the Board’s founding in New York City in 2003, its distinguished members have been instrumental in bringing our work to the attention of new and influential audiences, and in securing the resources needed to perform our many tasks.

These goals are achieved by facilitating interactions between business and community leaders and the Center’s personnel and associated security policy practitioners.  Such interactions occur at the monthly Regents Breakfast Series held at New York’s St. Regis Hotel. In addition, the Board sponsors each year two major events in New York: the Regents Annual Dinner held in June and the Mightier Pen Award luncheon held in the late Fall. 

Members of the Board of Regents have also been instrumental in arranging events sponsored by the Center or in concert with other organizations that help promote the Center’s ideas and initiatives.  For example, Center personnel have been a frequent speaker at prestigious forums in New York and the Tri-State area, including the Women’s National Republican Club, the America-Israel Friendship League, the Chaos Club, and a number of civic and religious institutions.  The Center’s commitment to forging collaborative relationships with like-minded organizations has also resulted in an on-going partnership with the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Policing Terrorism.

The Center co-sponsored events with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Organization of American Ambassadors such as the highly successful, half-day symposium on Preserving an Open Society in an Age of Terror.  Among the participants were Board of Regent Member Bruce Gelb, Sen. Jon Kyl, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, former Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh. 

In 2005, the Center also formed the Regents Council, a group of younger professionals working closely with the Board of Regents.  The Council is currently under the leadership of Richard Rubinstein and Jennifer White, its Chairman and Vice-Chairman, respectively.

 Since its founding, the Board of Regents has become an indispensable part of the Center’s success.  We are excited at the prospect of further expanding its membership and building it into a truly national force-multiplier for the Center and the cause of freedom.