Editing Michael Chertoff (section)

===Post-DHS career===
Since leaving government service, Chertoff has worked as senior [[of counsel]] at the [[Washington, D.C.]] law firm of [[Covington & Burling]].<ref>Covington & Burling (2009). [http://www.cov.com/mchertoff/ Michael Chertoff]. Retrieved August 9, 2009.</ref>

He formed The Chertoff Group (TCG) on February 2, 2009, to work on crisis and risk management. The firm is also led by Chad Sweet; he served as the Chief of Staff of Homeland Security while Chertoff was Secretary and also had a two-year stint at the Directorate of Operations for the CIA. The firm also employs [[Charles E. Allen]], Larry Castro, [[Jay M. Cohen]], [[Michael Hayden (general)|General Michael V. Hayden]] and other former high-ranking government employees and appointees.

Chertoff was also elected as Chairman of [[BAE Systems]] for a three-year term, beginning May 1, 2012. Chertoff co-chairs the [[Bipartisan Policy Center]]'s Immigration Task Force.

Chertoff was part of a legal team that represented Russian/Ukrainian [[Dmitro Firtash]]'s against extradition to the United States.<ref>{{cite news |last=Лещенко |first=Сергей (Leshchenko, Sergey) |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/cdn/graphics/2015/09/sprut_dmitrija_firtasha/ |title=Спрут Дмитрия Фирташа. Агенты влияния на Западе |trans-title=Dmitry Firtash's Octopus. Agents of influence in the West |language=ru |work=[[Ukrayinska Pravda|Украинская Правда]] (pravds.com.ua) |date=September 28, 2015 |access-date=March 30, 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325022339/https://www.pravda.com.ua/cdn/graphics/2015/09/sprut_dmitrija_firtasha/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

Chertoff is also a member of the [[Atlantic Council]]'s board of directors.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/board-of-directors/|title=Board of Directors|website=Atlantic Council|language=en-US|access-date=February 11, 2020}}</ref>

From 2017 to 2019, Chertoff served as a member of the [[Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace]] and was made a co-chair of the commission in its final year.

In a July 2020 op-ed in ''The New York Times'', Chertoff claimed the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] was hijacking the DHS for political purposes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/opinion/homeland-security-portland-trump.html|title=Opinion &#124; The Hijacking of Homeland Security|first=Michael|last=Chertoff|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 28, 2020}}</ref>