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James Bruce (Dr.) - is a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Both an intelligence practitioner and teacher, he retired from CIA after nearly 24 years. He served in the National Intelligence Council, CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence, the Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis, and was Chief of Training at the Counterintelligence Center. He is presently an adjunct professor at Georgetown and Columbia Universities where he has taught four different graduate courses.

Grey Burkhart - program manager for intelligence training and an intelligence analysis instructor at the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center. He served as a Navy intelligence officer, the chief executive of a consulting engineering firm, and as the Chief Operating Officer of two media companies. As a career intelligence officer, Burkhart's 30 years of professional experience and has contributed to a broad range of intelligence-related activities since he joined Booz Allen Hamilton in 2001. He is an authority on the global proliferation of information and communications technologies (ICT). His most recent book, co-authored with Susan Older, is The Information Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa. Burkhart holds a B.S. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology and a master's degree from the University of Southern California.

Steve Casto - Assistant Vice President, i2 Inc. Previously served for over 30 years with the U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). At the time of his retirement, he served as the Chief of Investigative Intelligence at the Special Operations Division. Some of the other Intelligence positions held by Mr. Casto include serving as the Chief of International Investigative Intelligence at DEA Headquarters; leading DEA’s Intelligence Response Team to Southwest Asia after 9/11; an assignment as an Inspector in the Office of Inspections; and six years as an Intelligence Group Supervisor in the Washington-Baltimore HIDTA where he worked closely with HIDTA Director and IAFIE Chair Thomas Carr. He also served three years in the U.S. Army, Military Intelligence, including a tour of duty in Vietnam. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland – University College.

Derek Chris - Master’s Student, Mercyhurst College. Intelligence Specialist, US Navy Reserves, Office of Naval Intelligence (2005-2008); Ballistics Specialist / Test Engineer – University of Alabama in Huntsville (2004-2007). Won the 2006 Harry S. Truman Foundation Scholarship. Awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for military service in the Persian Gulf. B.A. Political Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2007.