Michelle Buteau
Michelle Buteau recently retired from 10+ years at the Defense Intelligence Agency where she led the formation of a new Agency strategic China Mission Group. As a Staff Director she consolidated the Agency’s Joint Staff directorate, active military service elements and the Reserve Integration Office into a 3,000-officer worldwide intelligence organization.
Prior to the DIA, Michelle’s experience in the private sector includes:
- leading a multi-million-dollar congressional program to provide first-ever warfighter access to “fused/integrated” worldwide, real-time medical infectious disease analysis and treatments
- establishing/directing corporate operations to execute 50+ chemical/biological exercises for assessing a jurisdiction’s response within the first 48 hours of a terrorist attack
- authoring regulatory policy to implement first-ever U.S. nuclear power plant/chemical plant emergency planning at 72 U.S. plant sites and nine U.S. chemical weapons demilitarization sites; she was a nationally recognized subject matter expert/lecturer at Harvard University on a nuclear power plant’s offsite emergency planning
- managing Costa Rican and West Virginian hydroelectric power projects and co-authoring legal fish mitigation challenges to produce a $15M annual benefit at the New Martinsville Hydroelectric Project and to provide the U.S. hydroelectric industry with millions of dollars in annual regulatory fee relief
- serving as Chair, the Montgomery County’s Fire and Rescue President’s Committee and as President of the Conduit Road Fire Board President/Glen Echo Fire Department
Michelle graduated with a BA from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. and has an Executive MBA from Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland.