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Mark Lowenthal, President of the Intelligence & Security Academy (History of U.S. Intelligence, Introduction to U.S. Intelligence, Analyst Training: Writing Analysis & Preparing Briefings; Risk Awareness Intelligence, Homeland Security Intelligence) has served as Assistant DCI for Analysis & Production; Vice Chairman for Evaluation, National Intelligence Council; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). Dr. Lowenthal is the author of the standard college/graduate school textbook on intelligence, Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, now in its 4th edition (CQ Press). He also serves as an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University. In 1988, Dr. Lowenthal was the Grand Champion on the television quiz show Jeopardy!
Timothy Cague (Cyber Collections) is the President of The Cyan Group LLC, a cyber research and analysis company supporting the government and commercial sectors. He currently serves as one of the Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy’s Advanced Cyber Collections instructors. Prior to the Cyan Group he built ManTech’s Reconnaissance Operations Cell specializing in Open Source Intelligence Collection. As a communications officer in the USAF he led a worldwide deployable team of network experts in charge of evaluating and securing Air Force Network Assets.
Robert Clark (Intelligence Collection) has been chief of CIA’s Analysis Support Group and President and CEO of the Scientific and Technical Analysis Corporation. He was an electronics warfare and intelligence officer for the USAF. As a private consultant, Dr. Clark continues to perform space systems threat analyses for the NRO and CIA. He is the author of Intelligence Analysis: Estimation and Prediction; and Intelligence Analysis: A Target-centric Approach, now in its 2nd edition (CQ Press). His third book, Technical Collection of Intelligence, is due to be published in 2009.
Amos Guiora (Global Perspectives on Combating Terrorism) is a Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Utah; his courses include International Law, Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism, and Religion and Terrorism. He served for 19 years in the Israel Defense Forces as Lieutenant Colonel (ret.); his senior command positions include Commander of the IDF School of Military Law, Legal Advisor to the IDF Home Front Command and Legal Advisor to the Gaza Strip. Prof. Guiora has published extensively on law and terrorism. Prof. Guiora is a member of the ABA’s Law and National Security Advisory Committee.
Jason Healey (Intelligence Concepts for Cyber Conflict) is the Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council, focusing on international engagement for a more secure cyberspace. He also serves at the Executive Director of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, is a lecturer in cyber policy at Georgetown University, and is a senior consultant at Delta Risk, a boutique cyber defense firm. Mr. Healey has worked issues of cyber security policy, intelligence and operations from the White House to Wall Street. He was an executive director for Goldman Sachs Asia, where he built their crisis management capability and managed business continuity. Prior to that, as Director for Cyber Infrastructure Protection at the White House, he helped coordinate U.S. efforts to secure cyberspace and other elements of critical infrastructure. Mr. Healey started his career as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force. During his time at HQ Air Force at the Pentagon, he coordinated all Air Force efforts to stand up the Joint Task Force – Computer Network Defense to be the first ever joint military cyber warfighting command. He subsequently took over current intelligence and warning at the JTF during its first two years of operation.
W. George Jameson (Intelligence and the Law) spent 33 years as a lawyer at CIA, in many senior positions and across the entire range of intelligence activities: analysis, operations and Community affairs. Mr. Jameson currently is a consultant on issues relating to intelligence and other national security matters and co-founded the Council on Intelligence Issues, a non-profit educational and service organization established to help provide legal and other assistance to CIA and other intelligence personnel.
Matthew Levitt (Countering Terrorism Financing) is a senior fellow and director of The Washington Institute’s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. He also teaches international relations and strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). From 2005-2007, he was the deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the Treasury Department, serving as a senior official in Treasury’s terrorism and financial intelligence branch and as deputy chief of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. Dr. Levitt played a central role in efforts to protect the U.S. financial system from abuse and to deny terrorists, weapons proliferators, and other rogue actors the ability to finance threats to U.S. national security. In 2008-2009, he served as a State Department counterterrorism advisor to the special envoy for Middle East regional security, General James L. Jones. He also worked on terrorist fundraising and logistics for the FBI. Dr. Levitt is the authors of two books and many articles on terrorism. He has a B.A. in political science from Yeshiva University, and a master’s degree in law and diplomacy and Ph.D. from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Keith Masback (GEOINT 101) is the President of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF). He also is a member of the standing Intelligence Task Force of the Defense Science Board. Prior to joining USGIF, he spent a combined 20 years as an officer in the U.S. Army and in government service, culminating as a member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
Rick “Ozzie” Nelson (National Security Policy Process) is President of Fuel Consulting and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he focuses on counterterrorism, homeland security, and defense and intelligence-related issues. He is a former Navy helicopter pilot with over twenty years operational and intelligence experience, including assignments at the National Security Council, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the US Special Operations Command. He is operationally trained in naval helicopter strike warfare has deployed throughout the world and flown in support of numerous operations. He also is an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University, where he teaches courses on homeland security and counterterrorism.
Kathleen Reilly (Intelligence Budget Process) was a professional staff member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) from 2001-2009. She has been the principal staffer for all aspects of the CIA program (budget and operations) and has previously monitored the Military Intelligence Program (MIP). She also served as an assigned staff member on the House Appropriations Committee’s Select Intelligence Oversight Panel (SIOP), which coordinates between authorizers and appropriators. She has also served in the U.S. Navy on active duty and, presently, in the Reserves. Her Navy assignments have included electronic warfare, anti-submarine operations, counternarcotics and logistics. Ms. Reilly was in the first group of three women to perform aerial Intelligence Surveillance & Reconnaissance operations for the Navy in Desert Shield/Storm and was personally hand selected by Secretary of Defense for first-ever assignment of women destined to combat operations afloat (SECDEF waiver before Combat Exclusion). In 2008, she was selected as the Navy Reserves’ Top Sailor of the Year. Ms. Reilly has a B.S. in Aviation Management.
Paul Smith (Counter Terrorism: Actionable Intelligence) is a former British Army infantry officer and MI5 agent with 40 years of counter terrorism experience gained in the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, United States and elsewhere overseas. His British Army service included front line and senior defence policy positions in the UK Ministry of Defence. He completed five operational tours in Northern Ireland. Smith then joined the British Security Service (MI5), where he completed a series of operational, investigative and liaison postings in UK, Northern Ireland and abroad. His final posting was to the British Embassy in Washington, DC as the MI5 counterterrorist liaison officer to the US intelligence community. In 2008 Paul took a year-long appointment as an Intelligence Specialist with the FBI. He now provides counter terrorist intelligence and operational training to US Federal, State and Local law enforcement agencies. He is also an adjunct professor teaching counter terrorism at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
Maria Velez de Berliner (Risk Awareness Intelligence) is a recognized expert on the identification and analysis of regulatory, political, economic, social and cultural risk worldwide, with a specialization in Latin American issues, including security and terrorism. Dr. Velez de Berliner has both government and private sector experience and has been published widely in a variety of journals. She has taught global risk for the U.S. Special Operations command.
Howard Whetzel (Operational Intelligence) is a 38-year veteran of the Intelligence Community. He has worked as Senior Intelligence Officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army. His experience dealt with direct tasking and operational implementation of National and Tactical Intelligence. He has worked in HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT and MASINT. Years of field work and National Agency support allowed him to build successful Intelligence organizations in the government agencies and two multi-million dollar Intelligence based contractor small businesses.
