Claire Moravec is a nationally recognized security and risk executive with over a decade of experience protecting people, assets, and operations across government, technology, and industry. A former FBI intelligence leader and state homeland security executive, she has built and scaled global programs in security, trust and safety, and crisis management. She currently serves as the Director of Intelligence Operations for Social Media Exploitation at Sentinel.
As Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to the Governor of Illinois and the State’s inaugural Deputy Director of Homeland Security, Claire led major initiatives in targeted violence and terrorism prevention, school and campus safety, critical infrastructure protection, statewide interoperability, and grants management. She also represented Illinois on the U.S. Secret Service Executive Steering Committee for the 2024 Democratic National Convention (NSSE), coordinating statewide public safety and interagency operations.
At the FBI, Claire served as an intelligence and operations leader and founding member of the Social Media Exploitation (SOMEX) team. She also served on the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in both FBI Chicago and FBI New York, supporting complex counterterrorism investigations targeting al-Qa’ida, ISIS, and the Al-Nusra Front. In that capacity, she played a key role in the capture of two high-value terrorism targets by leveraging classified intelligence, human sources, and interagency partnerships. She was awarded the FBI Medal of Excellence (2017) for leading digital threat-disruption operations targeting nation-state actors within the Bureau’s National Covert Operations Section.
In the private sector, Claire advanced trust and safety efforts as Senior Manager of Response Operations at Snap Inc. (Snapchat), overseeing high-risk incident management and user protection. As Chief Operating Officer of a threat intelligence startup, she helped design and operationalize analytical frameworks for behavioral and insider threat assessment. Across sectors, she has advised on some of the nation’s most complex security challenges—translating evolving risk landscapes into actionable strategies that strengthen enterprise resilience and organizational trust.
Claire holds degrees from Columbia University and Loyola University Chicago, completed executive education through the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security, and is a FEMA Vanguard Executive Crisis Leaders Fellow. She also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of California, University of Denver, and Saint Xavier University, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in emergency management, criminology, and clinical social work.
The views expressed are solely those of Claire Moravec and do not reflect the official positions of the FBI, the State of Illinois, any U.S. government agency, university, or private sector organization with which she has been affiliated.
