William Braniff

William Braniff is an American counterterrorism scholar who served from 2023 to 2025 as director of the Center for Prevention [Programs and Partnerships] at the United [States Department of Homeland Security]. He resigned from that position in March 2025, in protest of drastic staffing cuts in first months of the second [presidency of Donald Trump]. He is a graduate of the United [States Military Academy] and the School of [Advanced International Studies] at Johns Hopkins University.