Alan D. Cohn is an American lawyer and former government official who served as Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Planning, Analysis & Risk in the United States Department of Homeland Security Office of Policy from 2012 to 2015.
[2] From 1990 to 1994, he was an emergency medical technician in New York City, working for Columbia Area Volunteer Ambulance, a student-operated volunteer ambulance corps that provides pre-hospital emergency medical care to residents in Columbia-owned buildings on its Morningside Heights campus.
[3] He was also a FEMA Disaster Assistance Employee from 1995 to 2006, and a Planning Officer on the Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue Task Force from 1998 to 2006.
He also represented the DHS on the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, designed and led the first two Quadrennial Homeland Security Reviews.
[5] In 2015, Cohn joined Steptoe & Johnson, becoming partner and co-chair of the firm's blockchain and cryptocurrency practice.