Ryan Greer

Ryan B. Greer serves as Chief Strategy Officer at PERIL and as the Chair of Bedrock. Ryan also serves as a non-resident Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project and leads a public affairs strategy consultancy, Vasa Strategies. Prior to joining PERIL, Ryan served as the Founding President of Bedrock, before which he served in public policy, community engagement, and violent extremism prevention roles, including as National Security Director and Chief of Staff for the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Government Relations, Advocacy, and Community Engagement (GRACE) team. Prior to his GRACE team role, he served as Director for Program Assessment and Strategy at ADL, leading innovative counter-extremism activities for the ADL Programs Division. Previously, Ryan served as a consultant for several terrorism prevention clients. He also served in government, as a Senior Advisor for community partnerships and terrorism prevention at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as a counterterrorism Policy Advisor and also as a Program Officer at the U.S. Department of State, as a Special Assistant for the White House National Security Council, and on staff for two Members of the U.S. House of Representatives. He holds a master’s in public policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and a bachelor’s from Skidmore College.