Bill Harris is an international lawyer, now in his eighth year participating in regulatory rulemakings and initiatives to strengthen financial incentives for critical infrastructure protection. He is a Member of the Board and a Co-Principal Investigator for the non-profit Foundation for Resilient Societies. He formerly was a Senior Member of the research staff at the RAND Corporation, where he proposed creation of the California Energy Commission (1973-74), property rights for unshaded solar energy systems (1975-76), and deregulation of interstate natural gas prices (1976-78).He was a co-designer of Hot Line (MOLINK) upgrades, Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers (1982-84), and a co-drafter of elements of the Treaty on Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF Treaty) of 1987, the START I Treaty of 1991 and the START II Treaty of 1993. He also served as a space operations lawyer for reconnaissance and communication systems of the United States government. Mr. Harris was a Senior (Legal) Advisor to the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack in January-December 2017. Since September 2017 he has served as a Vice Chair of the InfraGard National Disaster Resilience Council (NDRC), a non-profit committed to protection of critical infrastructures. He is one of three co-editors of the InfraGard book, Powering Through: From Fragile Infrastructures to Community Resilience (2016). Mr. Harris holds a B.A. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the California State Bar.
