Nicholas Rasmussen is the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, responsible for overseeing intelligence, operational, planning, and policy matters across the department’s agencies. A national security professional with more than twenty-seven years of government service over multiple administrations, he previously held senior CT posts at the White House and in the U.S. intelligence community, including as director of the National Counterterrorism Center.