Hon. Michael A. L. Balboni

Emergency Management & Homeland Security

Michael Balboni is a principal of Navigators Global, a bipartisan, full-service issues management, government relations and strategic communications firm. He had a distinguished 24 year career in New York state government, during which he served in both houses of the State Legislature and served as a cabinet officer for two governors. In 2006, Mr. Balboni was appointed as New York’s Deputy Secretary of Public Safety where he managed the day-to-day operations for homeland security affairs, emergency preparedness and response and law enforcement, with oversight for 63,000 employees and a budget of $5 billion. As an 18-year veteran of both houses of the State Legislature, Mr. Balboni has extensive experience in security and law enforcement matters. He has been Chair of the Senate Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs, where he wrote every major homeland security law in New York, including the state’s Anti-Terrorism Law of 2001. Mr. Balboni also authored a 2002 law that helps protect the state’s water supply from terror attacks and the 2005 Chemical Plant Security Act, the first of its kind in the nation. Among appointments to various federal and national homeland security positions, Mr. Balboni was appointed as an outside advisor to President Obama’s homeland security transition team, the Homeland Security Quadrennial Review Commission, and the Homeland Security Advisory Council. In 2004, he was appointed to serve on a national task force reviewing allocation of federal money for homeland security measures. In 2005, he was named Senior Fellow at the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University. He also co-chaired the National Conference of State Legislatures Executive Task Force on Homeland Security. Mr. Balboni, a graduate of St. John’s University Law School, was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1989. He was elected to the State Senate in 1997.