Tag: National Democratic Institute
Lauren Van Metre leads WIIS into a new security era
October 13, 2025Cory Harris, Editor
WASHINGTON—When Lauren Van Metre recently became president and CEO of Women in International Security (WIIS) in July, she brought decades of experience navigating the evolving global security landscape.
Van Metre’s career began at the Pentagon and the State Department in the 1990s, a time of shifting geopolitical dynamics.
“I started my career at the Pentagon and at the State Department, working in an era in the '90s where we were dismantling a sort of...
DEI is A-OK
August 17, 2022Cory Harris, Editor
Long time, no blog.
I admit, I have been on the blogging sidelines for several weeks now while my new comrade, Managing Editor Ken Showers, has settled in and immediately given his thoughts on various relevant security industry topics under my old blogging banner, Monitoring Matters.
As I’m now officially the editor of Security Systems News, my blogs will now fall under the title of On the Editor’s Desk, which you obviously know since you found me and are reading this right now.
Now...