Mitchell S. Baxter serves as General Counsel at Zeichner Risk Analytics and provides comprehensive legal and policy guidance on risk governance, oversight and compliance, critical infrastructure protection, cyber and data security, and numerous other matters. Mr. Baxter started with ZRA in 1997, developing the methodology for analyzing information-sharing models adopted by the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, and has been part of major consultations including the U.S. Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, the President’s Council on Year 2000 Conversion, the White House Executive Office of the President, the Department of Homeland Security, and numerous private-sector engagements. He served on a National Academy of Sciences panel commissioning a study on insider threats to classified information, and helped develop the curriculum for the first-ever course on Cyber Security and the Law for George Mason University School of Law, National Center for Technology and Law.

Prior to joining ZRA, Mr. Baxter brings a wide range of legal and policy knowledge and experience from prior and outside experience, including litigation, contracts, real estate finance and transactions, international trade, and government, including appointment as Deputy General Counsel/Acting General Counsel of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Mr. Baxter has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Florida, with minor studies of History and Spanish, and post-graduate coursework in Counterintelligence.