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The Director of National Intelligence selected Dr. Peter Lavoy to succeed Dr. Thomas Fingar as the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis, effective December 1, 2008. Dr. Lavoy joined the National Intelligence Council of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as National Intelligence Officer for South Asia in October 2007. Prior to this appointment, he directed the Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) and taught in the National Security Affairs Department of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. At CCC, he provided research on a wide range of regional and strategic issues to the makers and executors of U.S. defense policy. Many of his research efforts have resulted in journal articles and edited books, including Planning the Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons (2000), Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: 2016 (forthcoming, 2007), Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia: The Causes and Consequences of the Kargil Conflict (forthcoming, 2008), and Terrorism, War, or Disease: Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons (forthcoming, 2008). He served in the Office of Secretary of Defense in 2000 as Principal Director for Requirements, Plans and Counterproliferation Policy, and from 1998 to 2000 as Director for Counterproliferation Policy. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Government from Oberlin College. He speaks Hindi, Urdu, and French.
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