Admiral Thad Allen retired in 2010 as the 23rd Commandant of the US Coast Guard. He retired as an Executive Vice President (2017) and senior executive advisor (2021) at Booz Allen Hamilton.

He serves on several federal advisory committees. He chairs NASA’s Space Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board, is Vice Chair of the Board of Visitors to the National Intelligence University, and a member of the Comptroller General’s Advisory Board.

Admiral Allen led the federal responses to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He led Atlantic Coast Guard forces in response to the 9/11 attacks and coordinated the Coast Guard response to the Haitian Earthquake in 2010.

He is a 1971 graduate of the US Coast Guard Academy and holds master’s degrees from George Washington University and the MIT Sloan School. A recipient of 5 Honorary Doctorate degrees and held the James Tyler Distinguished Chair of Leadership at the Loy Institute of Leadership at the Coast Guard Academy from 2014 to 2021.

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