NIC
PERSONNEL
Dr. Thomas Fingar
Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Dr. Thomas Fingar was Assistant Secretary of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) from July 2004 until May 2005 when he was named Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis and Chairman, National Intelligence Council. While at the State Department he served as Acting Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research (2003-2004 and 2000-2001), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (2001-2003), Deputy Assistant Secretary for Analysis (1994-2000), Director of the Office of Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific (1989-1994), and Chief of the China Division (1986-1989).
His intelligence career began in 1970 as the senior German linguist in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, USAREUR & 7th Army in Heidelberg, Germany. Between 1975 and 1986 he held a number of positions at Stanford University, including Senior Research Associate in the Center for International Security and Arms Control, and Director of the University's US-China Relations Program. Other previous positions include assignment to the National Academy of Sciences as Co-Director of the US-China Education Clearinghouse, adviser to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and consultant to numerous US Government agencies and private sector organizations.
Dr. Fingar is a graduate of Cornell University (B.A. in Government and History, 1968), and Stanford University (M.A., 1969 and Ph.D., 1977 both in Political Science). He is a career member of the Senior Executive Service. His principal foreign languages are Chinese and German. Dr. Fingar has published dozens of books and articles, mostly on aspects of Chinese politics and policymaking.
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Stephen
S. Kaplan
Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Mr. Kaplan was appointed Vice Chairman of the National
Intelligence Council (NIC) and Assistant Deputy
Director of National Intelligence for the NIC on
20 August 2007.
Mr.
Kaplan joined the Agency in 1980 as a Scholar in
Residence in Soviet Affairs after five years teaching
at the university level and five years at the Brookings
Institution where he authored and co-authored three
books on Soviet and US military diplomacy and many
items for professional journals and the national
media. In 1981, he became a permanent staff member
as Chief, Political Instability Branch, Office of
Global Issues. In 1984 he became Assistant National
Intelligence Officer for the Soviet Union and from
1986-93 ran a variety of Soviet-related offices
including the East European Division, the Soviet
Domestic Affairs and Foreign Issues Group, and the
1991 Soviet Coup Crisis Task Force. In 1993 he was
appointed Director for Policy Support and Estimates,
Office of Slavic and Eurasian Analysis. In 1994
he became Chief of the Intelligence Training Division
where he directed the Tradecraft 2000 Program. He
became the White House PDB Briefer in 1995, and
in 2001 the Secretary of State’s Briefer.
In 2002 he was appointed Executive Assistant to
the DCI and later that year became Director of the
Office of Policy Support. In 2005, Mr. Kaplan became
the Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence
for the President’s Daily Briefing.
Mr.
Kaplan is married with three children. He is from
Brooklyn, New York and received his BA degree from
the City College of New York in 1965 with a major
in political science. From 1965-1970 he attended
the University of Chicago and obtained an MA in
International Relations and a Ph.D. in political
science.
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Mathew J. Burrows
Counselor
Dr.
Mathew J. Burrows has served as Director of the
Analysis and Production Staff in the National Intelligence
Council since May 2003. In this capacity, he is
responsible for managing a staff of senior analysts
and production technicians who guide and shepherd
all NIC products-not just Estimates-from inception
to dissemination. He was the principal drafter for
the NIC publication -- Mapping the Global Future
in 2020. This publication received widespread notice
and praise in the international media and among
academics and think tanks. In addition, in September
2005, he was asked to set up and direct the NIC’s
new Long Range Analysis Unit. In July, 2007, he
was appointed Counselor to the NIC.
Dr.
Burrows joined the CIA in 1986, where he served
as analyst for the Directorate of Intelligence (DI),
covering Western Europe, including the development
of European institutions such as the European Union.
In 1998-99 he was the first holder of the Intelligence
Community Fellowship, and served at the Council
of Foreign Relations in New York. Other previous
positions included assignments as special assistant
to the US UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, 1999-2001,
and Deputy National Security Advisor to US Treasury
Secretary Paul O’Neill in 2001-2002. He is
a member of the DI’s Senior Analyst Service.
Dr.
Burrows graduated from Wesleyan University in 1976
and in 1983, received a PhD in European History
from Cambridge University, England.
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Mark Roth
Director, Strategic
Plans and Outreach
Mark
Roth was appointed Director, Strategic Plans and
Outreach, of the National Intelligence Council in
April 2007.
Mr.
Roth previously served as the Assistant Deputy Director
of National Intelligence for National Intelligence
Priorities in the office of the Deputy Director
of National Intelligence for Requirements. Prior
to joining the ODNI, Mr. Roth was the project manager
in the Office of the Assistant Director of Central
Intelligence for Analysis and Production.
During
1986-2002, Mr. Roth served as a civilian all-source
intelligence analyst with the Department of the
Air Force. In this capacity, he was initially a
specialist in Chinese military capabilities and
later oversaw production of all-source finished
intelligence assessments on worldwide foreign air
forces and ground-based air defense forces. Prior
to his service with the Air Force, Mr. Roth was
a research specialist with the Library of Congress.
Mr.
Roth received a B.A. in History and a Certificate
in Asian Studies from Northwestern University. He
also earned an M.S. in National Security Strategy
from the National War College, National Defense
University, and also completed the Air Force's Air
Command and Staff College.
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Johnnie
Carson
National Intelligence Officer for Africa
Ambassador
Johnnie Carson joined the NIC as National Intelligence
Officer for Africa in September 2006 after a 37-year
career in Foreign Service. Prior to this appointment,
Carson served as the Senior Vice President of the
National Defense University in Washington D.C. (2003-2006).
Carson's Foreign Service career includes ambassadorships
to Kenya (1999-2003), Zimbabwe (1995-1997), and
Uganda (1991-1994); and Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs (1997-1999).
Earlier in his career he had assignments in Portugal
(1982-1986), Botswana (1986-1990), Mozambique (1975-1878),
and Nigeria (1969-1971). He has also served as desk
officer in the Africa section at State's Bureau
of Intelligence and Research (1971-1974); Staff
Officer for the Secretary of State (1978-1979),
and Staff Director for the Africa Subcommittee of
the US House of Representatives (1979-1982).
Before
joining the Foreign Service, Ambassador Carson was
a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania from 1965-1968.
He has a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political
Science from Drake University and a Master of Arts
in International Relations from the School of Oriental
and Africa Studies at the University of London.
Ambassador
Carson is the recipient of several Superior Honor
Awards from the Department of State and a Meritorious
Service Award from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
The Centers for Disease Control presented Ambassador
Carson its highest award, "Champion of Prevention
Award," for his leadership in directing the
US Government's HIV/AIDS prevention efforts in Kenya.
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Paul Heer
National Intelligence Officer for East Asia
Dr. Heer joined the NIC from the CIA, where he was a member of the Senior Analytic Service in the Directorate of Intelligence. During his CIA career, he worked as a political and foreign policy analyst on China and Southeast Asia, and as an analytical manager and editor.
Dr. Heer was a Visiting Intelligence Fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations (1999-2000) and was elected a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations in 2001. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Loras College (Dubuque, Iowa), a Master of Arts in History from the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. in Diplomatic History from The George Washington University.
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Karen
J. Monaghan
National Intelligence Officer for Economics
and Global Issues Ms.
Karen J. Monaghan was appointed National Intelligence
Officer for Economics and Global Issues in November
2007. She is serving her second tour on the NIC,
previously fulfilling the role of Acting NIO/EGI
and Deputy NIO from 2002-04. After joining the CIA
in 1985, Ms Monaghan held a variety of managerial
and analytic positions, including responsibility
for global economic and energy issues, as well as,
developments in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
From 2004 to 2006, she served as Deputy Chief of
the Economic Security Group in the Directorate of
Intelligence.
Ms
Monaghan was a Visiting Intelligence Fellow at the
Council on Foreign Relations (2006-2007). She holds
an MPhil. degree in International Relations from
St Antony's College, Oxford University and an undergraduate
degree in political science and economics from Vassar
College.
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Richard
D. Kauzlarich
National Intelligence Officer for Europe
Ambassador Richard Kauzlarich was appointed National
Intelligence Officer for Europe in September 2003.
Formerly he was Director of the Special Initiative
on the Muslim World at the United States Institute
of Peace. Ambassador Kauzlarich joined the Institute
in Spring 2002 after a 32-year career in the Foreign
Service. He served as United States Ambassador to
Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997-99 and to Azerbaijan
in 1994-97. He was Senior Deputy to the Secretary
of State's and the President's Special Representative
to the Newly Independent States (NIS) in 1993-94.
He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the
Bureau of European Affairs in 1991-93, responsible
for relations with the former Soviet Union and economic
ties with the European Union.
Ambassador
Kauzlarich also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State for International Organization Affairs
in 1984-86 and as Deputy Director of the State Department's
Policy Planning Staff in 1986-89, handling global
and international economic issues.
In
addition to his ambassadorial assignments, Ambassador
Kauzlarich has served at US Embassies in Ethiopia,
Israel, and Togo.
In December 2001, the Century Foundation published
his report, "Time for Change? US Policy in the Transcaucasus."
He is a co-author of "Aid During Conflict: Interaction
Between Military and Civilian Assistance Providers
in Afghanistan, September 2001-June 2002," published
by RAND in 2004.
Ambassador
Kauzlarich received his B.A. from Valparaiso University
and M.A.s from Indiana University and the University
of Michigan. He is a visiting fellow at the Joint
Forces Staff College of National Defense University.
He is also a member of the National Council of the
College of Arts and Sciences at Valparaiso University.
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Lawrence
K. Gershwin
National Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology
Dr. Gershwin joined the National Intelligence Council in 1981 and served as the National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Programs until 1994, when he became NIO for Science and Technology. Dr. Gershwin had previously served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Program Analysis and Evaluation (1979-81). He worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses (1972-75) and the Rand Corporation (1975-79). He served as a post-doctoral associate at Columbia and Stanford Universities (1969-72).
Dr. Gershwin has received the awards of Distinguished
Officer and Meritorious Officer in the Senior Intelligence
Service. In 1989 he received the Distinguished Intelligence
Medal and in 1996 the National Intelligence Medal
of Achievement. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from
the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969
and a B. S. in physics from the California Institute
of Technology in 1963.
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Major
General John R. Landry
USA (Ret.)
National Intelligence Officer for Military
Issues
General Landry was named National Intelligence Officer
for Military Issues (previously titled Conventional
Military Issues) in December 1993 after a distinguished
career in the US Army. Before joining the NIC, he
served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Guard/Reserve Affairs, Office of the Secretary
of Defense. In 1989, he was assigned as Chief of
Staff, VII Corp, US Army, Europe, a position he
held during Operation DESERT STORM. General Landry
also was assigned to armored cavalry units in Europe
and Vietnam, where he earned the Bronze and Silver
Stars. He was an Assistant to SACEUR, commanded
an Army Cavalry Squadron in Europe and an Armored
Brigade in the 4th Division at Fort Carson, and
later served as Chief of Strategic Plans and Policy
on the Army Staff.
General Landry earned an M.P.A. at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of
Government, taught at West Point in the Department of Social Sciences, and
graduated from the National War College and West Point.
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Alan Pino
National Intelligence Officer for the Near East
Mr.
Pino joined the National Intelligence Council in
September 2005 as National Intelligence Officer
for the Near East. He had served since 1983 as an
analyst and manager covering the Middle East in
the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of
Intelligence. His assignments included Iraq, Iran,
Jordan, Palestinians, Egypt, Sudan, Syria and Lebanon.
He served from June 2000 until his assignment to
the NIC as Chief of the Arab-Israeli Group in the
Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.
From 1994 to 2000, he was first a team chief for
the Near East South Asian Terrorist Team and then
Deputy Chief of Analysis for the Counterterrorist
Center and from 1998 through 2000 Chief of the Center's
Analysis Group. He had prior experience with the
NIC as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from 1989 to
1990. Mr. Pino has received the George H. W. Bush
Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism and the
Director's Award from former DCI George Tenet for
outstanding service.
Mr. Pino received a Masters Degree in Government and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia in 1981.
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Peter
R. Lavoy
National Intelligence Officer for South Asia
Dr. Lavoy joined the NIC 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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Fiona
Hill
National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia
Dr.
Fiona Hill is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy
Studies Program at The Brookings Institution currently
on leave as National Intelligence Officer for Russia
and Eurasia at The National Intelligence Council.
She is a frequent commentator on Russian and Eurasian
affairs, and has researched and published extensively
on a diverse range of issues related to Russia,
relations among the states of the former Soviet
Union, the Caucasus region, Central Asia, ethno-political
conflicts in Eurasia, and energy and strategic issues.
Her book with Brookings Senior Fellow Clifford Gaddy,
The Siberian Curse. How Communist Planners Left
Russia Out in the Cold, was published by Brookings
Press in December 2003; and her monograph Energy
Empire: Oil, Gas and Russia’s Revival was published
in London by the Foreign Policy Centre in 2004.
Other
recent publications include: “Fear of Democracy
or Revolution: The Reaction to Andijan?” (with Kevin
Jones) in The Washington Quarterly, Summer
2006; “Turkey and Russia: Axis of the Excluded?,”
(with Omer Taspinar) in Survival, Spring
2006; “Whither Kazakhstan?” In the National
Interest, October 2005; “Beyond Codependency:
European Reliance on Russian Energy,” U.S.-Europe
Analysis Series, July 2005; “A Spreading Danger:
Time for a New Policy Toward Chechnya,” (with Anatol
Lieven and Thomas de Waal) Carnegie Endowment
Policy Brief, March 2005; and “Governing Russia:
Putin’s Federal Dilemmas,” New Europe Review,
January 2005.
Prior
to joining The Brookings Institution, Hill was Director
of Strategic Planning at the Eurasia Foundation
in Washington, DC. From 1994-1999, she was Associate
Director of the Strengthening Democratic Institutions
Project (SDI) at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy
School of Government; and, from 1991-1994, she was
Director of Harvard’s project on Ethnic Conflict
in the former Soviet Union, Coordinator of Harvard’s
Trilateral Study on Japanese-Russian-U.S. Relations,
and a Research Associate at the Kennedy School of
Government.
Hill
is also President of the St. Andrews University
American Foundation, and on the editorial boards
of Demokratizatsiya and the Journal of Southeast
European and Black Sea Studies. She is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has been
a consultant to The Hague Initiative (an
international roundtable on the resolution of conflicts
in the Russian Federation and the former Soviet
Union, with a special focus on the 1994-1996 war
in Chechnya), and has testified before Congress
on the war in Chechnya, human rights in Central
Asia, the role of the Central Asian states in the
US war against terrorism, and long-term security
threats in post-Soviet Eurasia.
A Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University, Hill holds an M.A. degree in Russian and Modern History from St. Andrews University in Scotland; an A.M. degree in Soviet Studies, and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University. She has also pursued studies at the Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow.
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Edward
(Ted) M. Gistaro
National Intelligence Officer for Transnational
Threats Mr.
Gistaro was appointed National Intelligence Officer
for Transnational Threats in November 2006. He had
joined the Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorism
Center shortly after 9/11/2001, and served as Chief
of several new analytic and operational units until
his assignment to the NIC.
After
joining the CIA in 1989, Mr. Gistaro worked on political
and security issues in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1997
he served on the Presidential Daily Briefing staff,
briefing top US government officials each day. From
mid–1999 until summer 2001, Mr. Gistaro served
as Chief of West African analysis.
Mr.
Gistaro attended the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts University and Georgetown's School
of Foreign Service.
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Kenneth L. Knight, Jr.
National Intelligence Officer for Warning
Mr. Knight was appointed National Intelligence Officer for Warning in August
2004. He is a Defense Intelligence Senior Executive with over 25 years of
experience at the national, departmental, and theater intelligence echelons
and has served in a range of intelligence disciplines in both joint and allied
assignments.
As the Chief of DIA's Defense Warning Office (2002-2004),
and as the Defense Intelligence Officer for Global
Trends (1992-2002), Mr. Knight managed military
intelligence support to OSD and Joint Staff consumers
involved in strategy, doctrine, force structure,
and weapons development processes. Prior to these
assignments, Mr. Knight served as the Senior Executive
Analyst on the Army Staff, where he managed Army
involvement in the National Intelligence production
process and represented the Army on the Military
Intelligence and National Foreign Intelligence Boards.
As Deputy National Intelligence Officer for General Purpose Forces on the
National Intelligence Council (1993-1995), Mr. Knight directed the planning
and production of interagency National Intelligence Estimates on foreign
conventional military trends and capabilities. Prior to that, Mr. Knight was
the Army's Deputy Director of Foreign Intelligence, where he oversaw the
analytic content and managed the planning and execution of the Army Staff's
global intelligence production effort. Before that, Mr. Knight spent five
years in Europe analyzing Warsaw Pact political and military developments for
the US European Command, the US Army Europe, and NATO. He has also served as
the Chief of the Army's European Warning Center and as an analyst for DIA, the
Army Staff, and the US Navy.
Mr. Knight has a broad background in global security issues and foreign military
strategy, capabilities, and operations. He holds a B.A. in history from James
Madison University, an M.A. in security policy studies from George Washington
University, and is a graduate of the National War College.
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Vann H. Van Diepen
National Intelligence Officer for Weapons
of Mass Destruction and Proliferation
Mr. Van Diepen was appointed National Intelligence Officer for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Proliferation in February 2006.
Before his appointment, Mr. Van Diepen served for over 14 years as Director of the State Department's Office of Chemical, Biological and Missile Nonproliferation. From 1989-1991, he was Deputy Director of the Office of Policy Analysis in State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. From 1982-1989, he served in various positions (including Division Chief) in the Strategic Forces Division of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
Mr. Van Diepen earned a B.A. in International Studies
from American University in 1981, and a M.S. from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Defense
and Arms Controls Studies program in 1983. His honors
include the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement
for his participation in the National Intelligence
Estimate process in the 1980s, the Arthur S. Flemming
Award for outstanding US Government employees,
and the Secretary of State's Distinguished Honor
Award for exceptional leadership in US nonproliferation
efforts.
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J. Patrick Maher
National Intelligence Officer for the Western
Hemisphere Pat Maher, a 31-year veteran of the CIA, was appointed
NIO for the Western Hemisphere in August 2005. Mr. Maher recently completed a 20-month tour as Deputy
Director of the DI's Office of Policy Support. Before assuming senior management positions in the DI,
Mr. Maher had spent most of his career as a Latin American specialist. His assignments included that
of Issue Manager of the Colombia Working Group (2000-2001); Issue Manager for Mexico (1997-1999); and Chief
of ALA's Middle America-Caribbean Division (1995-1997).
He served in Brazil on a rotational assignment with the Department of State from 1986 through 1988.
In addition, Mr. Maher was a Congressional Fellow in 1982-1983, finishing his tour with a stint on
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Mr. Maher joined the Agency in 1974 with an MSFS from Georgetown University and three additional years in the PhD program at John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His undergraduate degree is from the College of Wooster. Mr. Maher was assigned to Colombia for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer (1966-1968) and returned to that country for a year and a half of field research while at SAIS. He taught briefly at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County before joining the CIA. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
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