William Braniff

William Braniff
Official portrait, 2024
Director of the United States Department of Homeland Security Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships
In office
April 2023  March 3, 2025
President
Preceded byJenny Presswalla (acting)
Succeeded byThomas Fugate (acting)
Personal details
Education
Military service
Branch/serviceUnited States Army

William Braniff is an American counterterrorism scholar who served from 2023 to 2025 as director of the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships at the United States Department of Homeland Security. He resigned from that position in March 2025, in protest of drastic staffing cuts in first months of the second presidency of Donald Trump. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.