Raj De

Raj De is General Counsel for the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. He is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the international law firm Mayer Brown LLP, which he joined in January 2006. Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Mr. De served as Counsel to the Special Bi-Partisan Staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee from 2004-2005, where he was a lead drafter and negotiator of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the legislation that created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). The DNI and the NCTC were two central recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (the “9/11 Commission”), for which Mr. De served as Counsel from 2003-2004. Prior to working for the 9/11 Commission, Mr. De was an associate with the law firm O’Melveny & Myers LLP and a trial attorney with the Department of Justice, in the Attorney General’s Honors Program. Mr. De clerked for Judge A. Wallace Tashima on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated magna cum laude from both Harvard Law School and Harvard College.