Rebecca Gomez is a Program Manager for the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), a Federal Advisory Committee that promotes security cooperation between U.S. private-sector interests worldwide and the U.S. Department of State.
In this role, Gomez manages, analyzes and facilitates the coordination of OSAC’s programs, partnerships and policy activities for membership groups that ensure the exchange of timely, relevant and reliable security advice and guidance to U.S. private-sector interests overseas. “Sharing timely, accurate information within a trusted network, informed by both the public and private sector perspectives, is essential to effective threat mitigation and management. In moments of crisis, you have to rely on your sources and know you can always call on them for help. Those trusted networks don’t just happen instantly; they have to be intentionally cultivated over time. OSAC has been around since 1985, ensuring that very thing,” Gomez says.