Robert Kolasky
Robert Kolasky is an experienced strategist, published writer, and analyst with the demonstrated ability to develop solutions to public problems. He serves as the assistant director for the Risk Governance and Support Division in the Office of Risk Management Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security.
Kolasky's focus in that position is on analyzing national risk and the degree to which we are trying to appropriately manage those risks. In that role, he helps facilitate the department’s Risk Steering Committee and is responsible for developing policies and processes to enable risk-informed strategic decisions by DHS.
Kolasky was the study team lead and served on the steering committee for the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review working group which provided homeland security leaders with an assessment of security risks to national strategic interests. In addition, he assisted in crafting key policy and program documents such as the DHS Risk Lexicon, Risk Management and Analytic Guidelines, Risk Management Issue Briefs ,and the Integrated Risk Management policy statement and directive.
Kolasky joined the federal government following his graduation from the Harvard Kennedy School in June of 2002. Before attending the Kennedy School, he was a journalist and an entrepreneur. He helped start two of the first public policy sites on the Internet and served as the managing editor for IntellectualCapital.com and the director of content for Policy.com.
