Full Name
Steven Driscoll
Job Title
Assistant Chief
Company
National Threat Assessment Center at U.S. Secret Service
Speaker Bio
Mr. Driscoll is an Assistant Chief with the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC), where he oversees the agency’s training, consultation, and outreach on behavioral threat assessment and the prevention of targeted violence, including school violence, workplace violence, terrorism, attacks against government officials and facilities, and mass attacks in public spaces. Mr. Driscoll regularly presents on threat assessment to a variety of audiences and consults on the establishment of threat assessment programs and threat cases.
In 2019, NTAC released Protecting America’s Schools: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence, which represents the most comprehensive analysis of targeted school violence ever produced by the federal government. In 2020, NTAC released their latest yearly analysis of mass causality incidents, titled Mass Attacks in Public Spaces – 2019. In 2021, NTAC released its latest report, which examined school attack plots that were successfully prevented, titled Averting Targeted School Violence: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Plots Against Schools, and in 2022, NTAC released Hot Yoga Tallahassee: A Case Study on Misogynistic Extremism.
Mr. Driscoll began his career with the Secret Service as a police officer in the Secret Service Uniformed Division, serving primarily at the White House Branch. As a member of the White House Surveillance Team, Mr. Driscoll frequently interacted with individuals outside of the White House who displayed concerning or unusual behavior directed at the people and places protected by the Secret Service. He is the recipient of the 2019 DHS Secretary’s Award for Excellence, the 2019 Secret Service Director’s Individual Impact Award, the 2019 Director’s Team Impact Award, and the 2022 DHS Secretary’s Team Innovation Award.
Prior to joining the Secret Service, Mr. Driscoll earned a Master of Education degree from Vanderbilt University, focusing on educational research and behavioral interventions for at-risk youth. After completing his degree, he accepted a Research Coordinator position at the university, where his work focused on school-based interventions with students at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders.
In 2019, NTAC released Protecting America’s Schools: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence, which represents the most comprehensive analysis of targeted school violence ever produced by the federal government. In 2020, NTAC released their latest yearly analysis of mass causality incidents, titled Mass Attacks in Public Spaces – 2019. In 2021, NTAC released its latest report, which examined school attack plots that were successfully prevented, titled Averting Targeted School Violence: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Plots Against Schools, and in 2022, NTAC released Hot Yoga Tallahassee: A Case Study on Misogynistic Extremism.
Mr. Driscoll began his career with the Secret Service as a police officer in the Secret Service Uniformed Division, serving primarily at the White House Branch. As a member of the White House Surveillance Team, Mr. Driscoll frequently interacted with individuals outside of the White House who displayed concerning or unusual behavior directed at the people and places protected by the Secret Service. He is the recipient of the 2019 DHS Secretary’s Award for Excellence, the 2019 Secret Service Director’s Individual Impact Award, the 2019 Director’s Team Impact Award, and the 2022 DHS Secretary’s Team Innovation Award.
Prior to joining the Secret Service, Mr. Driscoll earned a Master of Education degree from Vanderbilt University, focusing on educational research and behavioral interventions for at-risk youth. After completing his degree, he accepted a Research Coordinator position at the university, where his work focused on school-based interventions with students at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders.
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