Kristyn Kelly Shapiro and Fouad Pervez

Kristyn Kelly Shapiro recently joined Guidehouse as an Associate Director in Defense and Security after 18 years of federal service with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Naval Intelligence. In the FBI she served as member of the Senior Executive Service (SES) in the Counterterrorism Division where she led through crisis events from the Pulse Nightclub shooting through the events of January 6th. In her last role as an SES she was responsible for talent acquisition and human capital strategy helping the Bureau tackle recruiting in the post-pandemic labor market. Prior to joining the FBI, Kristyn was an intelligence analyst with the U.S. Navy with experience in international operations, Human Intelligence, and on the Naval Intelligence Staff. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Boston College and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Fouad Pervez is a Senior Consultant at Guidehouse. He was previously a senior policy and quantitative analyst at Foreign Policy Analytics, where he helped create and run Foreign Policy’s Covid-19 Global Response Index and worked for clients on democratic decline and foreign assistance impact. Prior to that, Fouad was the Managing Director of the RESOLVE Network at the United States Institute of Peace, a global network devoted to research and policy on mitigating violent extremism. He spent several years as a consultant, working on evaluation work and policy analysis, specifically focusing on political violence and economic growth. He holds a BS in Human Physiology from Boston University, an MPH in Health Policy from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in International Relations from Georgetown University.