Full Name
Jeanne Benincasa Thorpe
Job Title
Nonresident Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security,
Company
Atlantic Council
Speaking At
Speaker Bio
Jeanne Benincasa Thorpe is a nationally recognized executive leader in resilience, crisis management, and operational readiness, with a distinguished record of translating complex risk environments into actionable, system-level solutions. Her bipartisan credibility reflected in appointments by two governors of opposing parties as Massachusetts Undersecretary of Homeland Security underscores her ability to unite public and private stakeholders around shared objectives and deliver measurable outcomes in high-risk environments.
Undersecretary of Homeland Security, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (2018–2023). Appointed by Governor Charlie Baker and retained by Governor Maura Healey, Jeanne served as the Commonwealth’s senior advisor on homeland security, resilience, and threat mitigation, developing and implementing the state’s first Homeland Security Strategy and unifying federal, state, and local efforts to improve intelligence sharing, coordination, and response. She directed the Commonwealth’s COVID-19 response mobilizing 150+ agencies, standing up statewide testing, and overseeing PPE distribution created the state’s first Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan and CIRT, partnered with DHS CISA to modernize critical infrastructure protection, led the Large Venue Task Force, secured federal funding, and advanced innovation to strengthen statewide preparedness capabilities.
Following her public service, Jeanne founded and served as Director of the National Security and Resiliency Division at Nixon Peabody, LLP establishing the firm’s dedicated practice for advising global clients on security, risk mitigation, crisis management, and operational resilience. She translated complex threats into practical solutions and guided clients on continuity planning, incident response, and coordination.
Jeanne currently serves as a Nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, contributing practitioner insight to national and global resilience initiatives, including work informing the Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative and the Global Resilience Task Force. Her work emphasizes the application of innovative technologies and artificial intelligence to strengthen resilience at the local, community, and state levels.
As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Resiqor Advisors, LLC, Jeanne leads a practitioner-driven consulting and technology firm advancing resilience, emergency management, live-event operations, physical security, and cybersecurity. She is guiding the development of an AI-enabled operational intelligence platform designed to unify critical data, deliver real-time situational awareness, and strengthen readiness across complex, high-risk environments.
Undersecretary of Homeland Security, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (2018–2023). Appointed by Governor Charlie Baker and retained by Governor Maura Healey, Jeanne served as the Commonwealth’s senior advisor on homeland security, resilience, and threat mitigation, developing and implementing the state’s first Homeland Security Strategy and unifying federal, state, and local efforts to improve intelligence sharing, coordination, and response. She directed the Commonwealth’s COVID-19 response mobilizing 150+ agencies, standing up statewide testing, and overseeing PPE distribution created the state’s first Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan and CIRT, partnered with DHS CISA to modernize critical infrastructure protection, led the Large Venue Task Force, secured federal funding, and advanced innovation to strengthen statewide preparedness capabilities.
Following her public service, Jeanne founded and served as Director of the National Security and Resiliency Division at Nixon Peabody, LLP establishing the firm’s dedicated practice for advising global clients on security, risk mitigation, crisis management, and operational resilience. She translated complex threats into practical solutions and guided clients on continuity planning, incident response, and coordination.
Jeanne currently serves as a Nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, contributing practitioner insight to national and global resilience initiatives, including work informing the Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative and the Global Resilience Task Force. Her work emphasizes the application of innovative technologies and artificial intelligence to strengthen resilience at the local, community, and state levels.
As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Resiqor Advisors, LLC, Jeanne leads a practitioner-driven consulting and technology firm advancing resilience, emergency management, live-event operations, physical security, and cybersecurity. She is guiding the development of an AI-enabled operational intelligence platform designed to unify critical data, deliver real-time situational awareness, and strengthen readiness across complex, high-risk environments.
