Clark Kent Ervin

Clark Kent Ervin is the Director of the Homeland Security Initiative at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, he served as the first Inspector General of the United States Department of Homeland Security from January, 2003 to December, 2004, after having served from 2001 to 2003 as the Inspector General of the United States Department of State. A native Houstonian, Ervin served in Texas state government from 1995 to 2001, first as Assistant Secretary of State and then as a Deputy Attorney General. During 1989-1991, he served as the Associate Director of Policy in the White House Office of National Service. A cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1980) and Harvard Law School (1985), Ervin was a Rhodes Scholar, earning a Master's Degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University in 1982. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the author of "Open Target: Where America is Vulnerable to Attack," published by Palgrave Macmillan in May, 2006.