RISE 2019 Conference

David Turetsky is Professor of Practice at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany. He is also affiliated faculty at Albany Law School. Before joining academia in 2017, he held senior positions in law, government and business. These include service as the co-leader of the cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice of a global law firm; Chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), where he led for the FCC on emergency preparedness and response, including for weather events such as Sandy, Isaac, and a major derecho, as well as on the resilience and reliability of critical communications infrastructure more generally. He participated in several White House-led interagency cyber and emergency preparedness and response groups for the FCC. Earlier, he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust in the U.S. Department of Justice; Senior Vice President of a telecom services provider that he helped to bring public; and “Management Trustee,” appointed twice by federal courts to run certain rural mobile wireless businesses for six-month stints until divested by an acquirer to satisfy merger consent decrees. His legal work has won professional recognition and various writing prizes. His consulting work has included serving as a reviewer of certain work commissioned by Rand relating to recovery of the communications sector in Puerto Rico after Maria. He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, Amherst College magna cum laude, and studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science.