Kristyn Kelly Shapiro and Fouad Pervez

Kristyn Shapiro is a Director in Defense and Security at Guidehouse where she leads the firm’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Headquarters account. She brings over 20 years of experience in national security and law enforcement having served as a federal employee with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Naval Intelligence prior to Guidehouse. During her tenure at the FBI, Kristyn served in the Senior Executive Service (SES), leading responses to major national security crises in the Counterterrorism Division. She also later guided the Bureau’s talent acquisition and human capital strategy, oversaw operations for the Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch, and led the Strategy Management Office. As an intelligence analyst with the U.S. Navy Kristyn led international operations, human intelligence targeting, and served on the Naval Intelligence Staff. She is a board member of AFCEA Bethesda and 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.