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The faculty at The Institute of World Politics includes ambassadors, senior intelligence officials, military officers, presidential advisers, senior government analysts, and thought leaders in international affairs. The great majority are scholar-practitioners with both academic credentials and high-level governmental and nongovernmental experience in the subjects they teach.
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Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst for DIA’s Defense Combating Terrorism Center
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Senior Vice President for Professional Affiliations; Former Advisor to U.S. Special Operations Command South; Founder of Fundacion ECCO
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Adjunct Professor; Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council
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Adjunct Professor; Retired Naval Academy Professor; Retired Navy Reserve Intelligence Officer
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IWP Professor; George and Sally Mayer Fellow for Economic Education and Academic Director at the Fund for American Studies; former Economic Analyst for the CIA's Office of Terrorism Analysis
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Adjunct Associate Professor, IWP; Associate Professor, New England College; Former Deputy Spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
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Professor of History, The Kosciuszko Chair in Polish Studies, Director of the Center for Intermarium Studies
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34-year Veteran of the U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Communities
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Exfiltration Expert; Chairman, IWP Board of Advisors; IWP Trustee; IWP Professor
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Professor; Career Military and Commercial Senior Leader
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Adjunct Professor; Private Sector Security Consultant; Former Senior Intelligence Analyst, DoD
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Former Senior Intelligence Officer and Executive in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency
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IWP Professor; Turning cyber threat intelligence into policy and action for government and industry
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IWP Professor; Physician with a Specialization in General Psychiatry
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Former CIA Analyst; Retired Army Reserve Officer; Intelligence Scholar; IWP Adjunct Professor
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Director of Professional Doctorate Programs; Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair of International Communication; Professor of Strategy and Statecraft
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Senior Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Former Ambassador to Jordan, Lebanon, and Pakistan; Former Special Envoy for Middle East Peace; IWP Professor
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Adjunct Professor; Senior Cyber Intelligence Practitioner at Recorded Future
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IWP Professor; Distinguished Fellow, Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare, Marine Corps University; Former Director of Counterterrorism Studies Programs in Asia and Europe for the U.S. Government
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Adjunct Professor; Senior Intelligence Officer on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon
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Senior Vice President, Council of American Ambassadors; former Ambassador to Barbados & the Eastern Caribbean
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Adjunct Professor of National Security Affairs; Former Army Combat Arms Officer and Foreign Affairs Specialist
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Former Assistant Director, CIA and 34-year veteran of the U.S. intelligence and foreign affairs communities; IWP Adjunct Professor
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Senior Policy Analyst, Strategic Planner; Department of Justice, U.S. Council on Transnational Organized Crime, Office of National Drug Control Policy
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Founder, President Emeritus, and Chancellor, The Institute of World Politics; Former Director of European and Soviet Affairs, National Security Council
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President of Water Dragons Consulting, Managing Director at State Street, Director of International Programs Development at the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), and retired Lieutenant Colonel with the U.S. Army
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President of the Mycenaean Foundation; Active field archaeologist in Greece
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Dean of Academics
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Former Distinguished Fellow, the World Affairs Institute; Former Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Former Aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Former Vice President, CACI’s National Intelligence Solutions Group; Former Senior Executive on the National Security Council Staff
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Former Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM), Senior U.S. Civilian Representative (SCR) and Office Director, U.S. Department of State
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Senior Vice President for Research and Business Development; Former special assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
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Adjunct Professor; Former Deputy Director, National Clandestine Service, CIA
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Adjunct Professor; Management Consultant with Coverent
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Director, PhD Program in Statecraft and Strategy and Adjunct Professor; Member, Board of Advisors, Foreign Policy Research Institute; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
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Former Senior Advisor to the State Department's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau; Former National Intelligence Officer for Africa
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Professor, Marine Corps Command & Staff College
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IWP Professor; Director of Psychiatry at Saint Elizabeths Hospital
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IWP Professor; Former Senior Advisor with the House Budget Committee; Former consultant for the House Financial Services Committee
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Professor of Intelligence Studies; Former Analyst, Foreign Intelligence Directorate, DIA; Former Analyst, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
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Adjunct Professor; Former Chief of China Analysis at the U.S. State Department Office of Intelligence and Research
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Professor of Statecraft and National Security Affairs; Former Senior Director for Policy Implementation and Execution on the National Security Council Staff
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Adjunct Professor of Energy Security; Chair of the Center for Energy Security and Diplomacy at IWP; Founder and President, SVB Energy International
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Adjunct Professor, Former Wall Street and International Investment Banker
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Adjunct Professor; Former Associate General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency
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Founder and President, American Council on Women Peace and Security