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Mark Lowenthal, President of the Intelligence & Security Academy (History of U.S. Intelligence, Introduction to U.S. Intelligence, 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!
R. Maxwell Baber (GEOINT 101) is Director of Academic Programs at the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), managing accreditation of university Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) certificate programs and supporting related educational initiatives. These initiatives include but are not limited to USGIF scholarships, the foundation’s GEOINT 101 course introducing fundamentals and history of geospatial intelligence, GEOINT tradecraft development, and expansion of geospatial learning in K-12 education. Dr. Baber received a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Georgia in 1999 and an M.A. in Geography from Georgia State University in 1993. He has served in faculty appointments with the Master of Science in Geographic Information Systems program at the University of Redlands and Departments of Geography at Samford University and the University of Northern Colorado. He has developed and implemented a number of pedagogical geographic information science projects supported with funding from various sources including the National Science Foundation. He is a member of the U.S. National Committee for the International Cartographic Association (USNC-ICA), serves on the executive boards for the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) and the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), and is a Fellow of the British Cartographic Society (BCS).
Robert Clark (TECHINT) 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.
Yasin el-Maghrbi (North Africa in Transition) is a former Senior Advisor to the US Department of Defense for the Middle East and North Africa Region. He has also served as a consultant and senior consultant for General Electric, SAIC, Defense Language Institute, and the World Bank Group. He holds Master’s Degrees in Information and Telecommunications as well as Business and Finance from the Johns-Hopkins University. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Economics and Banking from Eastern Michigan University.
Pierre Ghazal (Mid-East Cultural Intelligence) is the founder and director of the Rhode Island Center for Mid-East Studies. Mr. Ghazal retired from the USAF as a Lt. Colonel. He is the Adjunct Middle East and Arabic resident expert at the National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC)-Executive Program, Defense Intelligence Agency, where he also developed the predictive intelligence course. He is also a guest lecturer at the Army JFK Special Warfare Center & School and the Foreign Service Institute of the State Department. Colonel Ghazal served as the senior CENTCOM interrogator during Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm and led the Coalition Forces’ Document Exploitation (DOCEX) efforts in Kuwait City. Colonel Ghazal was selected as the first Air Attaché to the US embassy in Damascus, Syria. He has also served as Deputy Director of Intelligence, USAF Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts. Colonel Ghazal is a native speaker of Arabic and Aramaic. His education includes a Baccalaureate in Arabic Literature, a Bachelors Degree in Political Science, and a Masters in International Relations.
Jason Healey (Intelligence Support to Cyber Conflict) is a senior consultant at Delta Risk and has worked cyber security policy, intelligence and operations from the White House to Wall Street. Before coming to Delta Risk, 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.
Reg Heitchue (TECHINT) is a consultant in technical intelligence, space and national security. From 1974-2000, he worked at CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T), focusing on advanced technical intelligence projects, including advanced satellite concepts and advanced studies that laid the foundation for advanced national space imaging systems. Mr. Heitchue is a recognized acquisition and systems engineering professional. He currently consults for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on technical collection issues. He is an Adjunct Online Professor at Texas A&M University where he teaches Intelligence Collection Systems and National Security.
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.
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 GP 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 (The Intelligence Budget Process) has been a professional staff member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) since 2001. 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.
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.
Robert Wysocki (North Africa in Transition) is President and CEO of Strategy Actualization Associates, Inc., a strategy execution and performance management consulting firm. He served as Senior Plans Officer, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Chief Technology Officer, Department of Defense Counterintelligence Field Activity; and as a program manager in the Defense Intelligence Agency. In the private sector he was a program executive and director of business development for two Fortune Global 500 consulting firms. Mr. Wysocki was on active duty in the US Marine Corps for 15 years, serving in Haiti, the Philippines and Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He has an M.A. in National Security, Norwich University; and an M.S. in Management, Troy State University.
